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It's cool to see my coworkers' efforts on the front page! There is some more sample code and charts in the introductory blog post at https://www.eventbrite.com

It's cool to see my coworkers' efforts on the front page! There is some more sample code and charts in the introductory blog post at https://www.eventbrite.com/engineering/introducing-britecharts/ https://www.eventbrite.com/engineering/introducing-britechar...

Dowwie 9y ago
Genuinely curious-- why did they decide to create yet another charting library?
- rwholey 9y ago
  Britecharts was conceived a bit over two years ago. We needed something that was fully tested with the flexibility to freely customize the look and feel. There were (and still are!) plenty of great libraries out there nvd3, c3, highcharts, etc. but nothing that quite fit the bill for what we needed at Eventbrite at the time. So we rolled our own and rather than keep it to ourselves, we decided to share it with the community! My colleague posted a followup to a question on a blog post he wrote that goes into more detail about this topic if you're interested: https://www.eventbrite.com/engineering/introducing-britecharts/ https://www.eventbrite.com/engineering/introducing-britechar...
  - rhizome 9y ago
    The article mentions only d3 in comparison, what does Britecharts have that the ones you mention don't? UPDATE: Ah, it's (somewhat) in a third post: https://www.eventbrite.com/engineering/introducing-britecharts/#comment-9860 https://www.eventbrite.com/engineering/introducing-britechar...
  - andybak 9y ago
    I hit this a couple of years ago and hoped things had improved. d3 was too low-level for my tastes (There are two types of programmers - builders and disassemblers. I'm the latter in that I like to start with something working and figure out how to take it apart). I toyed with Vega, nv3d, Bokeh and they all had great things going for them but nothing felt like it had nailed "making the easy things easy, and the hard things possible".
    - zbryikt 9y ago
      you should check out https://plotdb.com https://plotdb.com it abstracts simple things into GUI yet still gives you the power to modify source code to do the hard things. disclaimer: I'm the founder of plotdb.com

Dowwie 9y ago

Genuinely curious-- why did they decide to create yet another charting library?

rwholey 9y ago
Britecharts was conceived a bit over two years ago. We needed something that was fully tested with the flexibility to freely customize the look and feel. There were (and still are!) plenty of great libraries out there nvd3, c3, highcharts, etc. but nothing that quite fit the bill for what we needed at Eventbrite at the time. So we rolled our own and rather than keep it to ourselves, we decided to share it with the community! My colleague posted a followup to a question on a blog post he wrote that goes into more detail about this topic if you're interested: https://www.eventbrite.com/engineering/introducing-britecharts/ https://www.eventbrite.com/engineering/introducing-britechar...
- rhizome 9y ago
  The article mentions only d3 in comparison, what does Britecharts have that the ones you mention don't? UPDATE: Ah, it's (somewhat) in a third post: https://www.eventbrite.com/engineering/introducing-britecharts/#comment-9860 https://www.eventbrite.com/engineering/introducing-britechar...
- andybak 9y ago
  I hit this a couple of years ago and hoped things had improved. d3 was too low-level for my tastes (There are two types of programmers - builders and disassemblers. I'm the latter in that I like to start with something working and figure out how to take it apart). I toyed with Vega, nv3d, Bokeh and they all had great things going for them but nothing felt like it had nailed "making the easy things easy, and the hard things possible".
  - zbryikt 9y ago
    you should check out https://plotdb.com https://plotdb.com it abstracts simple things into GUI yet still gives you the power to modify source code to do the hard things. disclaimer: I'm the founder of plotdb.com