DataFart
Dev tools
command line graphing
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
4 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 10 critical, out of 27 comments about the project. Thread score -0.19.
Execution: 1 for, 4 againstDesign: 1 for, 3 againstIdea: 0 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool, useful tool and cheeky installation instructions
From 3 comments
Awesome! I love how cheeky this is. The installation instructions are sweet.
naftaliharris on HNThis is awesome. Thanks!
aaronpk on HNIt's great. I wanted this literally two days ago.
mcartyem on HN
Objections
The name is unprofessional and hard to recommend at work
From 2 comments
A cool tool with an unfortunate name. I'm not going to send a link to datafart.com/mygraph to someone with whom I only have a professional relationship.
AustinGibbons on HNA neat utility. The short-lived nature of the graphs doesn't bother me at all. But with that name I couldn't even recommend it to a number of people I can think of in my…
Scramblejams on HN
Uploading data to a web server and graphs deleted after 10 minutes
From 1 comment
I'm now storing my data on someone else's servers, and they promised to remove it after 10 minutes. Not good for sharing. And if the site is down...I'm out of luck. Edit: And…
tsm on HN
Prefers local programs rather than web dependency
From 1 comment
The web dependency situation is absurd. Am I unreasonable for wanting a locally-installed program that produces a standalone window all by itself?
tsm on HN
Requests
Support for dates and time-based data
From 1 comment
This would be even better if it supported dates. In my day job I'm struggling to find tools for plotting time-based data nicely and efficiently. Splunk works, but only if you…
joelhaasnoot on HN
Support for CSV or other delimiters
From 2 comments
Why don’t you use a format like CSV?
hk__2 on HNThat's a good idea. My immediate use case only involved whitespace delimited data, but I might as well just scan each line for numbers.
paulrosenzweig on HN
Option for private graphs and https
From 1 comment
What?? No!! You should always have option to fart silently. one https, and one make-private-ability please! :P Nice project.
gprasanth on HN
Questions
Why this name?
From 1 comment
What an outrageous name for a command line graphing tool. I'm honestly curious, why?
jbackus on HN
How does the alias work?
From 1 comment
how does the alias work? Are you routing the data from the shell to a certain api end point?
tharshan09 on HN
Alternatives named
gnuplot
From 2 comments
like gnuplot?
philsnow on HNGnuplot?
dfc on HN
matplotlib in Python
From 1 comment
Or the following python script: ``` import pandas from pylab import * d = pandas.read_csv(sys.argv[1]) plot(d[d.columns[0]], d[d.columns[1]]) xlabel(d.columns[0])…
yummyfajitas on HN
bcat
From 1 comment
You could also do this without a server at all. You could just have a script put your data into the html/js template and open up the page with something like bcat.…
kingfishr on HN
feedgnuplot
From 1 comment
Not unreasonable at all. Here you go: http://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot
dima55 on HN
HighCharts
From 1 comment
HighCharts (http://www.highcharts.com) handles dates pretty well.
mikegioia on HN