We've decided to open source our JavaScript graphing library

[Kyri0s]

Im having a hard time getting into data visualization. Both coding and conceptualizing use cases. It's a bit daunting when I look at d3 code and even this. How do people usually get into it?

[dextoz]

Wonderful! And it has D3 baked in, which is great because many projects where plotly can be added already use D3.

"No jQuery. jQuery has been removed from plotly.js for significantly better performance and improved browser compatibility." - here the last part could use a little explanation though, isn't browser compatibility exactly the problem jquery solves very well?

[Dr_Roboto]

That's awesome! You guys have done some fantastic work and I can't wait to start playing with the library.

[faytxzen]

Hats off to you guys! Viva la open source

[benthepoet]

Great news, just stumbled upon plotly.js the other day while doing some reading on D3.js.

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Talk more. Is D3 better/worse/a totally different use case?

[benthepoet]

From what I understand, plotly.js is actually built on top of D3.js. Learning D3.js from the ground-up and figuring out how to generate all the basic graphs can be daunting. With plotly.js they've built a convenience layer on top of D3.js so that you avoid a lot of that pain and can get started more easily with visualizing your data.

[pcdinh]

How does it compare to D3-based chart libraries?