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> It still takes me a crazy amount of time to get a simple chart or graph working in D3 Wrong tool for the job. D3 fills the void between "just send my data t

by mbesto 8y ago

> It still takes me a crazy amount of time to get a simple chart or graph working in D3 Wrong tool for the job. D3 fills the void between "just send my data to a bar chart" and "I need some charts, maybe I'll use raw JS to manipulate SVG's". You're probably in the former camp.

staticautomatic 8y ago
Out of curiosity, what would you use for "just send my data to a bar chart?"
- db1 8y ago
  I really like chart.js http://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/ http://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/
  - acqq 8y ago
    http://www.chartjs.org/samples/latest/ http://www.chartjs.org/samples/latest/ The examples do "cubic" instead of just "connecting the dots" but luckily it can be turned off: http://www.chartjs.org/samples/latest/charts/line/interpolation-modes.html http://www.chartjs.org/samples/latest/charts/line/interpolat...
- workinthehead 8y ago
  HighCharts for paid, Chart.js for open source.
  - mwaitjmp 8y ago
    Flot is also a good choice. It's old now and hasn't been updated in a long while but if I'm not mistaken, grafana still makes use of it.
- mbesto 8y ago
  What the other replies said.
- methyl 8y ago
  AmCharts
- bpicolo 8y ago
  Google Charts is an option I use a lot - surprised more people don't know about it. Maybe just because it was developed before the hip new land of React? (A bunch of react wrappers exist for it though) https://developers.google.com/chart/ https://developers.google.com/chart/
- thirdsun 8y ago
  In addition to the alternatives already mentioned I really like https://frappe.io/charts https://frappe.io/charts
davidwparker 8y ago
Why would you say that? `The last thing I did was an area graph that you could click and drag one of the edges and it would update the numbers in the legend as you did it.` That doesn't sound like "just send my data to a bar chart" to me.

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> It still takes me a crazy amount of time to get a simple chart or graph working in D3 Wrong tool for the job. D3 fills the void between "just send my data t

by mbesto 8y ago

staticautomatic 8y ago
Out of curiosity, what would you use for "just send my data to a bar chart?"
- db1 8y ago
  I really like chart.js http://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/ http://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/
  - acqq 8y ago
    http://www.chartjs.org/samples/latest/ http://www.chartjs.org/samples/latest/ The examples do "cubic" instead of just "connecting the dots" but luckily it can be turned off: http://www.chartjs.org/samples/latest/charts/line/interpolation-modes.html http://www.chartjs.org/samples/latest/charts/line/interpolat...
- workinthehead 8y ago
  HighCharts for paid, Chart.js for open source.
  - mwaitjmp 8y ago
    Flot is also a good choice. It's old now and hasn't been updated in a long while but if I'm not mistaken, grafana still makes use of it.
- mbesto 8y ago
  What the other replies said.
- methyl 8y ago
  AmCharts
- bpicolo 8y ago
  Google Charts is an option I use a lot - surprised more people don't know about it. Maybe just because it was developed before the hip new land of React? (A bunch of react wrappers exist for it though) https://developers.google.com/chart/ https://developers.google.com/chart/
- thirdsun 8y ago
  In addition to the alternatives already mentioned I really like https://frappe.io/charts https://frappe.io/charts
davidwparker 8y ago
Why would you say that? `The last thing I did was an area graph that you could click and drag one of the edges and it would update the numbers in the legend as you did it.` That doesn't sound like "just send my data to a bar chart" to me.