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Re:Dc.js – Dimensional Charting JavaScript Library by viggity on Monday June 09, 2014 @09:58AM (#7868439)
I love dc.js. In fact, I just released a data viz tool (www.machete.io) yesterday that lets lay people create charts/dashboards with dc.js. If you're a dev, you'll obviously have a lot more flexibility by crafting dcjs exactly to your liking, but machete would can help you rapidly prototype.

Example: All 3,025 Penalties in the NFL 2013 Season - http://www.machete.io/board/view/NFL_2013_Penalties/3731630c...

The plan is to use the github model - free public boards, private boards will be a small monthly fee.

Re:Dc.js – Dimensional Charting JavaScript Library by kelv on Monday June 09, 2014 @10:21AM (#7868564)
Very cool tool. Signed up to the list, and keen to see how the service can simplify the data viz process.
Re:Dc.js – Dimensional Charting JavaScript Library by viggity on Monday June 09, 2014 @10:30AM (#7868613)
Thanks! As I've been creating other examples (yet to be released), I've discovered there are always going to be little quirks with the way you want certain data pre-filtered or grouped, aggregated and then grouped again. But in general my time creating my first board went from two weeks (http://stonefinch.com/Projects/Medicare - 19mb download, it'll take a while), down to 1-2 days, then down to 4 hours. Now with machete I can knock out a new board in less than an hour. I typically spend a lot more time just munging together data.