Thanks Russell, d3.js looks interesting. Will definitely give it a try. Stephan
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus Russell Branca <[email protected]> wrote: >On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Thursday, March 14, 2013, Russell Branca wrote: >> >> > I'm partial to D3.js, which is a powerful library for data manipulation >> and >> > provides good constructs for creating SVG based visualizations. It is >> not a >> > "charting" library though, but rather a library you would use to create >> > such a tool. >> > >> > D3.js: http://d3js.org/ >> > >> > Two nice charting libraries on top of D3: >> > >> > http://nvd3.org/ >> > http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/ >> > >> > >> > >> which one would you advice? >> > >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! > > >-Russell > > > >> > -Russell >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Jim Klo <[email protected]<javascript:;>> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > Good place to start? >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Integrating-D3-with-a-CouchDB-database-1 >> > > >> > > That's a very generalized request... Visualizing what? >> > > >> > > Google charts is quick and easy, but found it painful to scale. >> Updating >> > > the DataTables has always been a bit awkward IMO when working with >> > CouchDB. >> > > >> > > >> > > Sent from my iPhone >> > > >> > > On Mar 13, 2013, at 8:11 PM, "Stephan Bardubitzki" < >> > > [email protected] <javascript:;><mailto:[email protected] >> <javascript:;>>> >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > Hi there, >> > > >> > > can someone recommend a tool/library for data visualization? I was >> > > thinking about Google Chart Tool but there might be others available. >> > > >> > > Thx, >> > > Stephan >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >-------------------------------- >Spam/Virus scanning by CanIt Pro > >For more information see >http://www.kgbinternet.com/SpamFilter.htm > >To control your spam filter, log in at >http://filter.kgbinternet.com
