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Configuration language (DSL) to assemble visualizations

60 points by rodionos 10y ago

wcrichton 10y ago
Declarative data visualization is an active area of research, and there's a lot of cool projects in this space. Take a look at Vega-Lite [0] and Voyager [1]. [0] https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/ https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/ [1] https://vega.github.io/voyager/ https://vega.github.io/voyager/
- rodionos 10y ago
  Great to see these efforts attacking the "tyranny of charts" by which I mean visualizations created with GUI editors.
- jamessb 10y ago
  Work on grammars for graphics go back to Leland Wilkinson [1]; Tableau's VizQL and Hadley Wickham's ggplot2 library for R are other notable examples [2]. [1]: https://www.cs.uic.edu/~wilkinson/TheGrammarOfGraphics/GOG.html https://www.cs.uic.edu/~wilkinson/TheGrammarOfGraphics/GOG.h... [2]: http://ggplot2.org/ http://ggplot2.org/
- crawfordcomeaux 10y ago
  Altair [0] is built on top of Vega-lite and I think both could serve as good sources of inspiration for OP's design. Definitely enjoyed this example page & can't wait to see how it evolves! [0] https://altair-viz.github.io/ https://altair-viz.github.io/
detaro 10y ago
Doesn't work for me, console shows CORS errors. Anybody else see the same?
- rodionos 10y ago
  Does https url work for you on the same browser? https://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/2ef08f32 https://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/2ef08f32 We've seen this error on the plain-text url but couldn't pinpoint the exact reason.
  - detaro 10y ago
    Yes, that works, and looks quite impressive! EDIT: The issue seems to be the links to css and js for from maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. If I change those in the HTTP version to HTTPS urls it works.
noelwelsh 10y ago
I like the general idea, but when I look at this implementation is seems like it lacks basic facilities for abstraction. E.g. naming values. This reminds me of CSS, which similarly suffers from such a lack of abstraction and is slowly gaining such features. Cf Less, Sass, and other CSS preprocessors which provide more facilities for abstraction.

60 points by rodionos 10y ago

Declarative data visualization is an active area of research, and there's a lot of cool projects in this space. Take a look at Vega-Lite [0] and Voyager [1]. [0] https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/ https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/ [1] https://vega.github.io/voyager/ https://vega.github.io/voyager/

rodionos 10y ago
Great to see these efforts attacking the "tyranny of charts" by which I mean visualizations created with GUI editors.
jamessb 10y ago
Work on grammars for graphics go back to Leland Wilkinson [1]; Tableau's VizQL and Hadley Wickham's ggplot2 library for R are other notable examples [2]. [1]: https://www.cs.uic.edu/~wilkinson/TheGrammarOfGraphics/GOG.html https://www.cs.uic.edu/~wilkinson/TheGrammarOfGraphics/GOG.h... [2]: http://ggplot2.org/ http://ggplot2.org/
crawfordcomeaux 10y ago
Altair [0] is built on top of Vega-lite and I think both could serve as good sources of inspiration for OP's design. Definitely enjoyed this example page & can't wait to see how it evolves! [0] https://altair-viz.github.io/ https://altair-viz.github.io/

detaro 10y ago

Doesn't work for me, console shows CORS errors. Anybody else see the same?

rodionos 10y ago
Does https url work for you on the same browser? https://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/2ef08f32 https://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/2ef08f32 We've seen this error on the plain-text url but couldn't pinpoint the exact reason.
- detaro 10y ago
  Yes, that works, and looks quite impressive! EDIT: The issue seems to be the links to css and js for from maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. If I change those in the HTTP version to HTTPS urls it works.

noelwelsh 10y ago

I like the general idea, but when I look at this implementation is seems like it lacks basic facilities for abstraction. E.g. naming values. This reminds me of CSS, which similarly suffers from such a lack of abstraction and is slowly gaining such features. Cf Less, Sass, and other CSS preprocessors which provide more facilities for abstraction.