Plottable.js – Flexible, interactive charts for the web

Post by enraged_camel » Mon, Sep 05, 2016, 6:20 PM UTC

fasouto wrote: post #3

insulanian wrote: post #2

This is definitely the best charting library I've worked with so far, mostly because of its flexibility. However, being afraid that I'm not aware of some other, maybe more powerful, libraries out there, I'm asking here are there good alternatives? Also, there were some rumors lately regarding the layoffs in Palantir, which makes me worry about the future of the project.

https://github.com/fasouto/awesome-dataviz#javascript-tools I personally love: http://metricsgraphicsjs.org/ and http://www.chartjs.org/ BTW I created the list, comments are appreciated

Post by artursapek » Mon, Sep 05, 2016, 6:41 PM UTC

andybak wrote: post #28

olavgg wrote: post #23

I really dislike these simple charting libraries, because I always have some kind of issue that just wastes my time in the end. For example with plottable, there is a hover event function that is extremely expensive that will trigger for every pixel movement with your mouse. With just a few hundred datapoints every chart we rendered ran horribly slow. With D3.js you have instead full flexibility and the only performa…

Surely if it's a bug that affects everyone then file an issue? If there's a bug in a library then that doesn't invalidate the entire concept of 'simple charting libraries'. How many have you tried? d3 is robust because it's great code that's widely used - not because of it's other design choices.

Post by xdanger » Mon, Sep 05, 2016, 6:52 PM UTC

insulanian wrote: post #2

This is definitely the best charting library I've worked with so far, mostly because of its flexibility. However, being afraid that I'm not aware of some other, maybe more powerful, libraries out there, I'm asking here are there good alternatives? Also, there were some rumors lately regarding the layoffs in Palantir, which makes me worry about the future of the project.

Post by helb » Mon, Sep 05, 2016, 7:27 PM UTC

fasouto wrote: post #3

insulanian wrote: post #2

This is definitely the best charting library I've worked with so far, mostly because of its flexibility. However, being afraid that I'm not aware of some other, maybe more powerful, libraries out there, I'm asking here are there good alternatives? Also, there were some rumors lately regarding the layoffs in Palantir, which makes me worry about the future of the project.

https://github.com/fasouto/awesome-dataviz#javascript-tools I personally love: http://metricsgraphicsjs.org/ and http://www.chartjs.org/ BTW I created the list, comments are appreciated

Post by saguiar » Mon, Sep 05, 2016, 7:52 PM UTC

slig wrote: post #7

Can someone enlighten me on why they're doing two declarations, one empty returning `this` and the other, implemented, returning `any`? public connectorsEnabled(enabled: boolean): this; public connectorsEnabled(enabled?: boolean): any { if (enabled == null) { return this._connectorsEnabled; } this._connectorsEnabled = enabled; return this; } https://github.com/palantir/plottable/blob/develop/src/plots...

    public connectorsEnabled(enabled: boolean): this;
    public connectorsEnabled(): boolean;
    public connectorsEnabled(enabled?: boolean): any {
      if (enabled == null) {
        return this._connectorsEnabled;
      }
      this._connectorsEnabled = enabled;
      return this;
    }