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NVD3.js: re-usable charts for d3.js

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Re: NVD3.js: re-usable charts for d3.js

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Post by polyfractal »

angusgr wrote: post #3

Does anyone have any other recommendations for other interesting JS charting frameworks to evaluate? I'm using flot at the moment, I'm really keen to have a dig around in this now. (My particular sunny day wish list is for live & historical scientific strip chart style data logging: flexible date support, intuitive horizontal timeline dragging & zooming, live updating, line charts with gaps in them, rendering largish…

I have a few internal dashboards built with DyGraphs (http://dygraphs.com/). It's useful for quick timecharts, but can be kind of obnoxious for anything more complicated.

Re: NVD3.js: re-usable charts for d3.js

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Post by jameswyse »

twiceaday wrote: post #20
angusgr wrote: post #3

Does anyone have any other recommendations for other interesting JS charting frameworks to evaluate? I'm using flot at the moment, I'm really keen to have a dig around in this now. (My particular sunny day wish list is for live & historical scientific strip chart style data logging: flexible date support, intuitive horizontal timeline dragging & zooming, live updating, line charts with gaps in them, rendering largish…

I've used Highcharts ( http://www.highcharts.com/ ) for a couple of projects and they have been very nice.

This is actually pretty impressive, think i'll try it out, i'm currently using jquery.flot

Re: NVD3.js: re-usable charts for d3.js

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Post by wheaties »

Bob's currently capped on commenting at the moment so I'll relay what he'd like to say:

"As you guys can probably tell, I'm still in a very early stage of development. But, with that said, we're gonna be jumping the gun and making all of the models production ready very soon, so will be taking care of bugs left and right.

Still working out all the common features between the models. Will be making things more customize able as I go. Hopefully in the next day or two will implement a "values" accessor so you can use some slightly different data formats without issues.

I definitely want to hear what people are looking for and what they would do differently, I'll do my best to balance my needs with everyone else's."

Re: NVD3.js: re-usable charts for d3.js

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Post by katabatic »

angusgr wrote: post #3

Does anyone have any other recommendations for other interesting JS charting frameworks to evaluate? I'm using flot at the moment, I'm really keen to have a dig around in this now. (My particular sunny day wish list is for live & historical scientific strip chart style data logging: flexible date support, intuitive horizontal timeline dragging & zooming, live updating, line charts with gaps in them, rendering largish…

I recently evaluated lots of them for a dashboard project, and settled on flot. I built alternate working implementations in Flotr2 and Rickshaw, and less thoroughly evaluated Dygraphs, Envision, RGraph, elycharts, grafico, AwesomeChartJS, Morris.js, and Highcharts.

Highcharts is very nice, but commercial (although there's a free license for non-commerical work available). I settled on flot eventually because it has a reasonably complete set of features, easy API, and there are lots of plugins available to complete all the features I wanted to have. A lot of the newer frameworks are less complete (for now, anway).

That said, I've admired D3 for a long time, it just didn't have a good basic time-series chart wrapper to help a JS newbie like me jump in. Rickshaw's a good start at that, but missing some features I need, like multiple Y-axes. A D3-based library is attractive, because I also want to integrate Cubism.js's horizon charts, and keeping them on the same rendering engine will cut down code size and be nicely consistent.

I did notice that browser performance at rendering SVG is still noticeably behind Canvas when you have lots of complex graphs on screen at once. The Rickshaw implementation of my dashboard (Rickshaw uses D3) slowed down considerably on my MacBook Air compaired to the flot version.

Cubism, D3, and now NVD3 are still very much in the running for v2 of my dashboard project.

Re: NVD3.js: re-usable charts for d3.js

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Post by justincormack »

j4mie wrote: post #11
kfk wrote: post #7

Somebody has to really manage to make d3 run on 7<=IE<10. This is a powerful technology for businesses, it may even replace Power Point (the famous software for torture) for some things (especially those that are updated often since you still do this manually in PP). But it needs to run decently and painlessly in IE.

It would be great to actually figure out the steps required to make this happen. I'm not familiar with D3's code at all, but I know that it renders to SVG. Would it be possible to easily "plug in" Raphael's SVG/VML abstraction?

The problem with this is it is an abstraction, while d3 uses the DOM directly. In principle SVGweb ought to work, but again there seem to be issues in actually getting it to work. Fundamentally all these methods are much harder than it appears they ought to be at first glance, and several people have tried one or other of them and given up after varying amounts of success (I didn't stay at it long).

Chrome Frame works well though!

Re: NVD3.js: re-usable charts for d3.js

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Post by bobmonteverde »

katabatic wrote: post #35
angusgr wrote: post #3

Does anyone have any other recommendations for other interesting JS charting frameworks to evaluate? I'm using flot at the moment, I'm really keen to have a dig around in this now. (My particular sunny day wish list is for live & historical scientific strip chart style data logging: flexible date support, intuitive horizontal timeline dragging & zooming, live updating, line charts with gaps in them, rendering largish…

I recently evaluated lots of them for a dashboard project, and settled on flot. I built alternate working implementations in Flotr2 and Rickshaw, and less thoroughly evaluated Dygraphs, Envision, RGraph, elycharts, grafico, AwesomeChartJS, Morris.js, and Highcharts. Highcharts is very nice, but commercial (although there's a free license for non-commerical work available). I settled on flot eventually because it has…

We were using flot when I started. As soon as I found out about protovis I redid all our charts (and boy was everyone happy with that improvement). Shortly after that, d3 came out, in which case I ported all the protovis charts to d3. NVD3 is my second go at a collection of charts for d3.js... it was re-done from the ground up, and hopefully is much more true to d3's style than my previous attempt.
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