Show HN: Tableau-Like Data Visualizations in JavaScript
Hey everyone,I’m part of the Muze team at Charts.com. Over the years I’ve seen lots of people who struggle to find the perfect balance between low-level visualization kernel (like d3), or black-box configurable charts (HighCharts, FusionCharts).So we decided to build Muze taking a data-first approach, where you load your data in an in-browser DataModel, run relational algebra enabled data operators to get the right subset of data, and then just pass to Muze engine, which automatically renders the best visualization for it.Any changes to data (including application of data operations) automatically updates the visualization, without you having to do anything else.Couple of added benefits are :
- With other libraries, if you’ve to connect multiple charts (for cross-interactivity, drill-down etc.), you’ve to manually write the ‘glue’ code. With Muze, all charts rendered from the same DataModel are automatically connected (enabling cross-filtering).- Muze allows faceting of data out of box with multi-grid layout.- Composability of visualizations allow you to create any kind of cartesian visualization with Muze, without having to wait for the charting library vendor to release it as a ‘new chart type’- Muze exposes Developer-first API for enabling interactivity and customizations. You can use the low-level API to create complex interactionWe’ve literally just launched this last month or so, so I’d love some feedback if you can spare the time.Thanks for taking a look!Website: https://www.charts.com/muze
Github: https://github.com/chartshq/muze