On Thursday, March 14, 2013, Russell Branca wrote: > > > They're both quite good for building simple things. NVD3 has a wider > variety of display types, like pie charts, bullet charts, and the tree > view. Whereas Rickshaw has a more interactive and real time support and a > good example with: > http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/examples/extensions.html. > > Overall either make a pretty good 80% solution for getting something > running quickly, but at the end of the day they're just wrappers around D3, > and if you want a fully customized visualization, D3 is the way to go. > > If you interact with and filter data sets in javascript, D3 is a fantastic > tool to have in your toolkit, as it provides a great set of utility > functions for manipulating data, but the really interesting part of D3 is > the concept that it gets its name from, "Data Driven Documents," which is > basically a way to build data sets that change over time and to easily > trigger state transitions when your data changes. Worth looking into, and > lots of good resources out there to learn from. Also, the white paper for > D3 is quite interesting: http://vis.stanford.edu/files/2011-D3-InfoVis.pdf > . > > Hope that helps! > > thanks! Yes it is:) I will play with that during my flight . hopefully i will be able to show smth.
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