Charting Libraries

charting.libraries.md

• NVD3 (http://nvd3.org/)
  • Initial evaluation: seems the most mature. Apparently, has bad documentation, and is hard to use without going to its source code.
• dimple (http://dimplejs.org/)
  • Initial evaluation: its main goal is to offer a simple API to create charts
• C3.js (http://c3js.org/)
  • Initial evaluation: highly customizable charting API.
• xCharts (http://tenxer.github.io/xcharts/)
  • Initial evaluation: "designed to be dynamic, fluid, and open to integrations and customization" seems to have a rather complex API though
• Vega (http://trifacta.github.io/vega/)
  • Initial evaluation: intends to generate data visualizations from a JSON document. Charts can be generated server-side. Has an online editor http://trifacta.github.io/vega/editor/
• rCharts (http://rcharts.io/)
  • Initial evaluation: based on other two open-source projects (rVega, and rHighCharts). Creates a layer of abstraction on top of other charting libraries (like NVD3, HighCharts, Rickshaw, Morris, Polycharts, or Leaflet) using the R language.
• Rickshaw (http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/)
  • Initial evaluation: looks similar to NVD3 in its goal of providing an API that allows you to customize the different elements that compose a chart (axis, series, legends, ...)
• Dygraphs (http://dygraphs.com/). Plot charts.
• ChartJS (http://www.chartjs.org/)
  • Six types of charts
  • Canvas based
  • Retina-display support
  • Supports IE8