On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:50:38AM -0700, Ben wrote: > > On Mar 11, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Jason Dagit wrote: > > > Myself and several of my friends would find it useful to have a plotting > > library that we can use from ghci to quickly/easily visualize data. > > Especially if that data is part of a simulation we are toying with. > > Therefore, this proposal is for: A gnuplot-, matlab- or plotinum-like > > plotting API (that uses diagrams as the backend?). The things to emphasize: > > * Easy to install: No gtk2hs requirement. Preferably just pure haskell > > code and similar for any dependencies. Must be cross platform. > > * Frontend: graphs should be easy to construct; customizability is not as > > important > > * Backend: options for generating static images are nice, but for the use > > case we have in mind also being able to render in a window from ghci is > > very valuable. (this could imply something as purely rendering to > > JuicyPixels and I could write the rendering code) > > > > * What I would hope from you is a willingness to exchange email and/or > > chat with the student(s) over the course of the project, to give > > them a bit of guidance/mentoring. I am certainly willing to help on > > that front, but of course I probably don't know much about your > > particular project. > > > > I am willing/able to take on the mentoring aspect :) > > i second this, but with a different emphasis. i would like a ggplot2-type > DSL for generating graphs, for data analysis and exploration. i agree with : > > * it would be great to have no gtk2hs / cairo requirement. (i guess this > means text rendering in the diagrams-svg backend needs to be solved.) i > guess in the near-term, this is less important to me -- having a proper > plotting DSL at all is an important start. > > * frontend : graphs should be easy to construct, but having some flexibility > is important. the application here is being able to explore statistical > data, with slicing, grouping, highlighting, faceting, etc. > > * backend : static images are enough for me, interactive is a plus. most > importantly : it should be fast enough to work pleasantly with large > datasets. ggplot2 is pretty awesome but kills my machine, routinely.
Not to throw cold water on these ideas (which sound fantastic!), but the scope of this sounds more like a GSoC project than something a beginner could accomplish in 10-15 hours in the space of a few weeks. I'm looking not for project ideas but for small, concrete contributions they could make to existing open source projects. -Brent _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
