what's the status?

[mac-r]

Hey, slycoder.

I just thought about implementing qplot in d3 and then discovered your repo. Are you taking it seriously? Tried to look up the demo, but did not see anything. What's your plan?

I have several ideas from my side and would be glad to share them with you and participate in development.

Best, Max

[slycoder]

I just got started on this project but I really want to see this get up and running.

I wanted to shop this around to get an idea of what people are missing most out of a js visualization library -- would love to hear your thoughts.

There's a demo here: http://www.whiskeybadger.com/dddplot/dddplot.html

[mac-r]

I like d3 approach with chain methods. And it would be cool to combine it with qplot similar api.

Something like that:

plot.dataset({1:17, 2:19, 3:40}).chart('histogram').target('body').draw();

And then add new chain methods for axis format, maybe additional chart on top, etc.

It would be cool to use ggplot2 styling, which is already available: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4349486

The most challenging issue is to show volatility on the plot, but this is a thing making it extremely valuable.

It would be then easy to write a wrapper in ruby / python and combine it with ipython/iruby projects. At least for ruby it will be a huge breakthrough since there is no sufficient plotting library for daily research purposes. https://github.com/minad/iruby

Let's make an organization and I would be happy to participate as a team member.

[slycoder]

Interesting. I hadn't thought of the chaining (because it looks so dissimilar from the way things are done in the R package) but I think it's a good idea for javascript.

Incorporating the styling is also a good idea.

Feel free to open issues for the parts that you feel like tackling and what I can do to help. I was interested in adding some more mathematical and dataframe functionality so that this can be used as more of a replacement for an R environment.

[mac-r]

@slycoder

Cool! I am glad that you liked these ideas.

Jonathan, let me ask you a question about Julia. I asked John Myles, but he didn't respond. The question is the following. As a person familiar with the community, do you believe that Julia has a huge potential? Does it worth making an impact there or it is just the same hype as Node?

[slycoder]

I think Julia has a lot of promise. The guys who are working on it are really dedicated and really smart. I personally think it's going to be a major force in the future.