The demo is seriously impressive! I haven’t heard of this library before, will definitely consider using it
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
they are missing the mark by not featuring it in their demo. The us national budget comes to mind as a feature clip in the demo for sankey.
I don’t get what you mean, it is featured in the demo. On the landing page, click demo and navigate to sankey in the menu.
sorry, I didn't see it in their featured demo video, unless it was shown supper quick.
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#114we use eCharts for all the visualizations in https://www.definite.app/ . We evaluated pretty much every option and it's the best non-react option. Recharts honestly seems a little nicer if you're using React, but our frontend is in Vue.
Even if one is using react, I think there's value in choosing libraries that are not deeply tied to react such that that logic can be reused when (not if) we need to start migrating away from it.
The problem is non-react chart libraries can be a bit cumbersome to use in React. For example, D3 controls the DOM itself through various transformations. React is not aware of these updates and combining react's state based DOM manipulation with random updates from a charting library gets messy.
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#115I’ve had good luck generating charts with gnuplot and serving them as static images—keeps things simple and easy to cache. Haven’t had a need for a full JS charting library yet, but I can see the appeal.
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#116The line race looks so cool. https://echarts.apache.org/examples/en/editor.html?c=line-ra... Toggle the switches to trigger the race. By the way, well done Norway.
It looks neat, but unlike the Hans Rosling example someone else mentioned, the animation adds no additional information. Showing just the last frame would get the same point across much quicker and more accessible. It's a form of chartjunk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartjunk
You know how a presenter asks questions on a topic where he is the expert? Same goes for this animation. It does not show but hide information to keep the reader engaged. I found myself guessing who will be first and boy was I wrong. My ego would have prevented me from noticing, if the chart would have been presented to me right away.
On YouTube you can see how well this works. There are channels with a huge follower base just existing because of this animation.
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#117This is super slick. I remember spending hours maybe days trying to make MRTG or rrdtool graphs look like these.
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#118Apache Superset switched many of their interesting charts over to ECharts: https://preset.io/blog/2021-4-1-why-echarts/
Thank you, I thought these looked familiar somehow.
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#119ECharts is in my opinion the best out there. It surprisingly doesn't come up in a lot of lists or search for charting libraries. I've tried them all: chart.js, google charts, amCharts, Highcharts, ApexCharts. We use it in our tool/library https://docs.chartsql.com/
I think that’s because it’s a Chinese Project. Same thing with Ant Design Components, which are really awesome but not as well known as they should be.
Oooo thank you for mentioning that. Looks quite feature rich !
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#120No opinion on this particular package. But on the naming, "Apache" ECharts... It's long since time that Apache foundation projects stop using the Apache name. Apache is a license, a foundation, a webserver. Apache supported projects have little to do with that - not the same people, not the same product area. Just some help with money and logistics. And for those that argue the tie to the Apache org: They're not CNCF…
> They're not CNCF Kubernetes, CNCF Helm, CNCF Jaeger.
Maybe they should be?