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I find it wildly perplexing that there are so many frameworks and libraries for javascript graphics and data visualization. Wikipedia has a comparison matrix o

I find it wildly perplexing that there are so many frameworks and libraries for javascript graphics and data visualization. Wikipedia has a comparison matrix of 37 different libraries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_JavaScript_charting_frameworks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_JavaScript_charti... Here is a list describing briefly at least 50 libraries: http://techslides.com/50-javascript-charting-and-graphics-libraries http://techslides.com/50-javascript-charting-and-graphics-li...

edem 11y ago
Yet they have so few dealing with graph data structures.
slg 11y ago
Yeah, it is ridiculous. We need to develop one universal graphic and data visualization library that covers everyone's use cases.
- andrepd 11y ago
  I get the sarcasm, but do you really need 37 friggin libraries to cover everyone's use cases in the relatively small field of JS graphing libraries?
  - pgwhalen 11y ago
    Why do say it's a relatively small field? Outside of mobile, the desktop web is the front end target in all of computing these days, and JS is the only reasonable way to write for it.
- coldtea 11y ago
  Sarcasm aside that would be great. And we already do that in other domains, e.g. NumPy covers most people Python number crunching use cases, Cocoa covers 95% of OS X people UI use cases, etc, MySQL and PostgreSQL cover 80% of the web app db use cases, Rails covers 90% of Ruby's webapp uses cases, Django and Flask do the same for Python, etc...
- flashman 11y ago
  > We need to develop one universal graphic and data visualization library <xkcd>There are now 38 different libraries</xkcd>
jbergens 11y ago
Palantir tried to solve this with Plottable. See their presentation from JsConf 2014 about this http://2014.jsconf.eu/speakers/dan-mane-why-are-there-so-many-javascript-charting-libraries.html http://2014.jsconf.eu/speakers/dan-mane-why-are-there-so-man...

edem 11y ago

Yet they have so few dealing with graph data structures.

slg 11y ago

Yeah, it is ridiculous. We need to develop one universal graphic and data visualization library that covers everyone's use cases.

andrepd 11y ago
I get the sarcasm, but do you really need 37 friggin libraries to cover everyone's use cases in the relatively small field of JS graphing libraries?
- pgwhalen 11y ago
  Why do say it's a relatively small field? Outside of mobile, the desktop web is the front end target in all of computing these days, and JS is the only reasonable way to write for it.
coldtea 11y ago
Sarcasm aside that would be great. And we already do that in other domains, e.g. NumPy covers most people Python number crunching use cases, Cocoa covers 95% of OS X people UI use cases, etc, MySQL and PostgreSQL cover 80% of the web app db use cases, Rails covers 90% of Ruby's webapp uses cases, Django and Flask do the same for Python, etc...
flashman 11y ago
> We need to develop one universal graphic and data visualization library <xkcd>There are now 38 different libraries</xkcd>

jbergens 11y ago

Palantir tried to solve this with Plottable. See their presentation from JsConf 2014 about this http://2014.jsconf.eu/speakers/dan-mane-why-are-there-so-many-javascript-charting-libraries.html http://2014.jsconf.eu/speakers/dan-mane-why-are-there-so-man...