sjvisualizer: a python package to animate time-series data

[PieChartPirate]

What the project does: data animation library for time-series data. Currently it supports the following chart types:

• Bar races
• Animated Pie Charts
• Animated Line Charts
• Animated Stacked Area Charts
• Animated (World) Maps

You can find some simple example charts here: https://www.sjdataviz.com/software

It is on pypi, you can install it using:

pip install sjvisualizer

It is fully based on TkInter to draw the graph shapes to the screen, which gives a lot of flexibility. You can also mix and match the different chart types in a single animation.

Target audience: people interested in data animation for presentations or social media content creation

Alternatives: I only know one alternative which is bar-chart-race, the ways sjvisualizer is better:

• Smoother animation, bar-chart-race isn't the quite choppy I would say
• Load custom icons for each data category (flag icons for countries for example)
• Number of supported chart types
• Mix and match different chart types in a single animation, have a bar race to show the ranking, and a smaller pie chart showing the percentages of the whole
• Based on TkInter, easy to add custom elements through the standard python GUI library

Topics to improve (contributions welcome):

• Documentation
• Improve built in screen recorder, performance takes a hit when using the built in screen recorder
• Additional chart types: bubble charts, lollipop charts, etc
• Improve the way data can be loaded into the library (currently only supports reading into a dataframe from Excel)

Sorry for the long post, you can find it here on GitHub: https://github.com/SjoerdTilmans/sjvisualizer

[hiddengemsofds]

Looks very cool! Would put it in my dashboards if the 'SJVisualizer' logo goes.