Data Visualization

[Stephan Bardubitzki <st...@bardubitzki.com>]

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

Re: Data Visualization

[Benoit Chesneau <bc...@gmail.com>]

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.

benoît

Re: Data Visualization

[Russell Branca <ch...@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Benoit Chesneau <bc...@gmail.com>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 <jim.klo@sri.com<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" <
> > > stephan@bardubitzki.com <javascript:;><mailto:stephan@bardubitzki.com
> <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
> > >
> > >
> >
>

Re: Data Visualization

[Benoit Chesneau <bc...@gmail.com>]

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?

> -Russell
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Jim Klo <jim.klo@sri.com <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" <
> > stephan@bardubitzki.com <javascript:;><mailto:stephan@bardubitzki.com<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
> >
> >
>

Re: Data Visualization

[Russell Branca <ch...@gmail.com>]

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/


-Russell


On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Jim Klo <ji...@sri.com> 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" <
> stephan@bardubitzki.com<ma...@bardubitzki.com>> 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
>
>

Re: Data Visualization

[Jim Klo <ji...@sri.com>]

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" <st...@bardubitzki.com>> 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

Re: Data Visualization

[Ed Young <an...@gmail.com>]

Bime is a good SaaS solution.

Tableau if you're rich.

On 14/03/2013, at 14:11, Stephan Bardubitzki <st...@bardubitzki.com> 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
>

Re: Data Visualization

[Ed Young <an...@gmail.com>]

Splunk and QlikView.

On 14/03/2013, at 14:11, Stephan Bardubitzki <st...@bardubitzki.com> 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
>