(Completely irrelevant, but 2 minutes ago I found out that 'gnuplot' has a 'canvas' terminal. Check the demoes here: http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_canvas_4.6 - Not as pretty as Richshaw or D3, but very helpful if you don't have time to convert your plots to the new syntax)
It's nice to see Rickshaw getting some love with the new scatterplot renderer based a subclassable base renderer, a test suite, and an updated home page.
This looks good, what about the non standard browsers (IE<9, what did you think?)? I have been looking into d3 a lot lately, but if there is no good support for IE, then no way this can be used for business apps.
This looks really great, I've been looking for a fast charting library for my current project. I had been using flot but it's just a little too limiting. I was looking into building something like this http://square.github.com/crossfilter/, but I guess now I won't have to. I'll look into adding the handlebars that they have there to filter though, that's the one thing that's missing from Rickshaw imo.
Well-done! I was wondering when someone would do this. d3 is brilliant -- I use it and find it incredibly powerful -- but it's fairly low level (although Mike Bostock may disagree). I'm happy someone put together a higher-level interface.
My only suggestion would be to revisit some of the colors used in your visualizations. Obviously, we all have different opinions about color, and you may be perfectly content with your choices. But if you ever revisit your color schemes, some useful resources to consider are:
I just did a view source to see if I could determine that and found some interesting results.
It does appear to be custom CSS, and very minimal, but what surprised me was that the HTML was as minimal as possible as well. There are no HTML, HEAD, or BODY tags.
Maybe not technically valid, but an interesting way to save a few bytes.
That's surprising. Is it the example here (http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/examples/extensions.ht...) that is slow? How is it slow (when you click on controls to customize the view, drag a slider, mouse over plots)? When it's slow for you is there something else on your computer chewing up a bunch of CPU?
A lot of the hard work is being done by d3, which is pretty well optimized for the tasks its doing. I'd be surprised, even on a 4-5 year old commodity desktop, to see laggy or jumpy behavior with fewer than a million or so plot points.
Using jquery on my current project throughout the site. For this reason I choose flot for my graphs...if I was to switch to rickshaw then I would need to use D3 + Rickshaw + Jquery. That is a lot of javascript library overhead. :-/
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[+] [-] douglashunter|14 years ago|reply
Rickshaw has been talked about here before, when it was released (original thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3340089)
It's nice to see Rickshaw getting some love with the new scatterplot renderer based a subclassable base renderer, a test suite, and an updated home page.
Nice work!
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My only suggestion would be to revisit some of the colors used in your visualizations. Obviously, we all have different opinions about color, and you may be perfectly content with your choices. But if you ever revisit your color schemes, some useful resources to consider are:
http://colorbrewer2.org/
http://www.colorsontheweb.com/colorwizard.asp
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[+] [-] Zikes|14 years ago|reply
It does appear to be custom CSS, and very minimal, but what surprised me was that the HTML was as minimal as possible as well. There are no HTML, HEAD, or BODY tags.
Maybe not technically valid, but an interesting way to save a few bytes.
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[+] [-] douglashunter|14 years ago|reply
A lot of the hard work is being done by d3, which is pretty well optimized for the tasks its doing. I'd be surprised, even on a 4-5 year old commodity desktop, to see laggy or jumpy behavior with fewer than a million or so plot points.
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