Muze
Dev tools
javascript charting library
SHOW HN2018
361points
114comments
#52of 2,155 in 2018
Top 3%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
17 positive, 47 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 10 critical, out of 75 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.
Design: 8 for, 1 againstIdea: 5 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 4 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Data-first approach fills gap between d3 and black-box charts.
From 2 comments
> 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)…
cpsempek on HNI've been a career data analyst for 12 ish years. At first I didn't get the reference to Tableau, because I use Tableau for about 5-8 hours every day. I've played around with…
physcab on HN
Tutorial and approach seen as impressive for analysts.
From 1 comment
I've been a career data analyst for 12 ish years. At first I didn't get the reference to Tableau, because I use Tableau for about 5-8 hours every day. I've played around with…
physcab on HN
Objections
Charts render slowly and some examples peg the browser.
From 3 comments
Looks very nice at first glance. I'm just digging into each example visualization. Noticed that the "Bubble with temporal axes" seems to peg my browser (Chrome 69 on Mid 2015 2.5…
uptown on HNthanks for sharing, but holy slowwww
modzu on HNHey, any specific example are you talking about? We know https://www.charts.com/muze/examples/view/bubble-with-temporal-axes is a pain so far and we are fixing this along side…
pallavn on HN
Examples break or get cut off in some browsers.
From 2 comments
Thanks for sharing! A number of the charts in the examples are cut off (height-wise). https://www.charts.com/muze/examples/view/heatmap for example (in Chrome 69). Seems fine in…
andyfleming on HNthis was the most interesting thing for us, but it is broken in Chrome/Linux. https://www.charts.com/muze/examples/view/microcharts-in-table-using-crosstab Also what is the…
sandGorgon on HN
Requests
Server-side data model for large datasets.
From 2 comments
Is there a plan to create a version that generate the graphs and manage all the filtering on the server side instead of having all the data in the browser? This will be very…
adilmoujahid on HNOne use case could be a data visualization similar to what I built in [1] To build the visualization in [1], I used 3 datasets in csv format from a kaggle competition [2], and I…
adilmoujahid on HN
React component.
From 2 comments
Looks promising. How does Muze integrate with React?
atombender on HNIt’s well compatible with react. However we dont have a react component at this point of time. We are gonna make that happen soon.
pallavn on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Plotly, Vega, FusionCharts and Plottable?
From 4 comments
We currently use Plotly quite a bit where I work for a customer facing website with a wide variety of charts. Does anyone know what some of the tangible benefits might be to…
jupiter90000 on HNCheckout https://github.com/vega/voyager
codegladiator on HNhow does this compare with fusioncharts ?
victor106 on HNHow does this compare to Plottable, another composable visualization library? http://plottablejs.org/
rayshan on HN
Does it support multiple scales on one axis and PNG/PDF export?
From 2 comments
Is it possible to have multiple scales on a single axis this is something we use a lot at my work but very few javascript charting libraries seem to support. Example here:…
bigger_cheese on HNDo you support exporting the chart as png, pdf, etc.?
educationdata on HN
Alternatives named
d3
From 1 comment
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…
pallavn on HN
Highcharts and FusionCharts
From 2 comments
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…
pallavn on HNhow does this compare with fusioncharts ?
victor106 on HN
Vega Voyager and Vega-Lite
From 2 comments
Checkout https://github.com/vega/voyager
codegladiator on HNHow is Vegalite different from Muze?
devj on HN
Plotly
From 1 comment
We currently use Plotly quite a bit where I work for a customer facing website with a wide variety of charts. Does anyone know what some of the tangible benefits might be to…
jupiter90000 on HN
Plottable
From 1 comment
How does this compare to Plottable, another composable visualization library? http://plottablejs.org/
rayshan on HN