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I've been a career data analyst for 12 ish years. At first I didn't get the reference to Tableau, because I use Tableau for about 5-8 hours every day. I've pla

I've been a career data analyst for 12 ish years. At first I didn't get the reference to Tableau, because I use Tableau for about 5-8 hours every day. I've played around with every new charting library since Flex because I've always wanted to create a free version of Tableau that gets me 80% of what I use Tableau for, but with 1% the frustration of using Tableau. Problem was, I could never figure out how Tableau is able to create its visualizations so easily just by drag and drop. Every library makes you think of the chart you want to make beforehand, but as an analyst, I work on the data first then spend almost equal amount of time finding the most intuitive visualization for the trend I'm trying to convey. So I've just put that idea on hold indefinitely. I went through the tutorial and I have to say...oh man, this is amazing. Building a Tableau clone is now possible! I hope you guys don't go under because its going to take me a while, but I'm super excited! Does this work on mobile? Also, when I click "Play" the chart takes atleast 1-2 seconds to render. Is that just your code running engine or does every visualizations have that lag?

kakashi141 8y ago
Hey physcab, The charts do work on mobile. Also the lag you are seeing is only a limitation of our code engine which has to fetch and process the sample in an iframe due to security constraints. In a normal environment where the library is loaded via a script tag the charts should render very quickly.
yonl 8y ago
Hey it does work on mobile. However, remember visualizations like crosstab, splom are not meant to be displayed in a space constrained area as is. There are multiple way to handle this situation. At this point of time Muze does not changes layout based on space. The web framework fetches data, does some additional checking on data and schema, process visible code and render it. That is probably the reason you are seeing lag. Also there are few areas where Muze performance needs to be improved. We are doing a release to address this soon.

kakashi141 8y ago

Hey physcab, The charts do work on mobile. Also the lag you are seeing is only a limitation of our code engine which has to fetch and process the sample in an iframe due to security constraints. In a normal environment where the library is loaded via a script tag the charts should render very quickly.

yonl 8y ago

Hey it does work on mobile. However, remember visualizations like crosstab, splom are not meant to be displayed in a space constrained area as is. There are multiple way to handle this situation. At this point of time Muze does not changes layout based on space. The web framework fetches data, does some additional checking on data and schema, process visible code and render it. That is probably the reason you are seeing lag. Also there are few areas where Muze performance needs to be improved. We are doing a release to address this soon.