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A concise API for exploratory data visualization implementing a layered grammar of graphics

22 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 5 stories, 17 comments · first 2021-05-04 · latest 2025-04-08

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  1. …is as standalone as anything[0]. That said, I still find D3 unparalleled in depth and scope. [0]: https://github.com/observablehq/plot
    comment by dleeftink · 2025-04-08 · in Apache ECharts
  2. …statistical tests) etc. still missing, but i like the technical design to build on top off. It uses https://github.com/observablehq/plot under the hood, which aims to have just as flexible a grammar as ggplot (already quite capable) but…
    comment by hantusk · 2024-09-25 · in Scientific Visualization: Python + Matplotlib (2021)
  3. …days can be compared with each other. (And fit all this information on a mobile screen.) [1]: https://github.com/observablehq/plot/issues/147 [2]: https://github.com/observablehq/plot/discussions/626
    comment by Leftium · 2024-05-17 · in The case against dual axis charts (and what to use instead) (2018)
  4. …Python ! See [2] for a comparison to vega-lite [0] https://github.com/livebook-dev/vega_lite [1] https://github.com/observablehq/plot [2] https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot-vega-lite
    comment by rogue7 · 2024-02-27 · in Vega-Altair: Declarative Visualization in Python
  5. …and re-uploading a file to a fork of the notebook.) 4. I wish I knew! It’s being tracked here https://github.com/observablehq/plot/issues/1711 . Lately there’s been a lot more work on Framework naturally but now that that’s out… 5. Another…
    comment by tophtucker · 2024-02-16 · in Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps
  6. We’re working on zooming and panning for Observable Plot ( https://github.com/observablehq/plot/pull/1738 ) and other interactions such as brushing ( https://github.com/observablehq/plot/pull/721 ) — all of this is already possible, we…
    comment by mbostock · 2024-02-15 · in Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps
  7. …https://observablehq.com/@mkfreeman/plot-animation You could upvote this incremental rendering issue: https://github.com/observablehq/plot/issues/328 Or this one for adding a “time channel” to do data-driven animation (for which there’s an…
    comment by tophtucker · 2023-04-28 · in Observable Plot: A JavaScript library for exploratory data visualization
  8. It’s not easy to do radial stuff right now; you can upvote this issue: https://github.com/observablehq/plot/issues/133 One bizarre workaround right now is to abuse the geographic projections: https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/pie-to-do…
    comment by tophtucker · 2023-04-28 · in Observable Plot: A JavaScript library for exploratory data visualization
  9. …om/@jonhelfman/plot-violin-chart-with-... We don't have a good KDE built-in yet, but you could upvote https://github.com/observablehq/plot/issues/1469
    comment by recifs · 2023-04-28 · in Observable Plot: A JavaScript library for exploratory data visualization
  10. …newer PR in another comment. We’ve been exploring interaction while working on many other things ( https://github.com/observablehq/plot/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md ). Now that we’re feeling good about the foundation for static charts we are…
    comment by mbostock · 2023-04-28 · in Observable Plot: A JavaScript library for exploratory data visualization
  11. …on tooltips now, and interaction next. There’s a PR here with an early sketch and demo video: https://github.com/observablehq/plot/pull/721
    comment by mbostock · 2023-04-28 · in Observable Plot: A JavaScript library for exploratory data visualization
  12. …time). There’s just a little adapter to convert Vue’s hyperscript to the standard DOM API here: https://github.com/observablehq/plot/blob/main/docs/componen... The end result is that all the Plot examples are authored simply as fenced js…
    comment by mbostock · 2023-04-28 · in Observable Plot: A JavaScript library for exploratory data visualization
  13. …took a small break to focus on TypeScript declarations and then the new documentation website): https://github.com/observablehq/plot/pull/1304 In the meantime, you can do lots of interactive stuff with the SVG that Plot generates. There’s…
    comment by mbostock · 2023-04-28 · in Observable Plot: A JavaScript library for exploratory data visualization
  14. …a ton of stuff, they're shipping new features constantly. It's worth reviewing the changelog: https://github.com/observablehq/plot/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
    comment by simonw · 2023-04-27 · in Observable Plot: A JavaScript library for exploratory data visualization
  15. …incomplete, so if you want SVG charts today, I recommend Observable Plot[1] or Vega-Lite[2] [1]: https://github.com/observablehq/plot [2]: https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/
    comment by llimllib · 2022-10-30 · in Chartist: Simple Responsive Charts in SVG
  16. Yup. There’s some discussion of this in this issue https://github.com/observablehq/plot/issues/359 , which notes that the ~100 test plots in https://github.com/observablehq/plot/tree/main/test/plots are rendered by Node with JSDOM by…
    comment by tophtucker · 2021-05-06 · in Observable Plot
  17. Thanks for the feedback. There’s a test in the repo that does parallel coordinates: https://github.com/observablehq/plot/blob/main/test/plots/ca... It’s not a perfect fit for Plot because Plot wants at most one instance of each scale in a…
    comment by mbostock · 2021-05-04 · in Observable Plot