Protovis port

Hi everyone,

I have recently been introduced to the protovis visualization library, and I find aspects of it to be incredibly appealing for certain visualizations that don’t fit some of the canonical chart types.

http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/

Has anyone ever thought of porting the API from protovis and using the MPL backends to perform the rendering? Is anyone interested in potentially working on a port? I was thinking we’d initially start with the static functionality, and ultimately also port the interaction if there is enough interest.

Uri

Uri Laserson
Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering

Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
M +1 917 742 8019
laserson@…895…

As an aside: Related to the graph/network layout algorithms (which
appears to be only a subset of protovis) is NetworkX, which can use
matplotlib as a rendering backend.

Mike

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http://networkx.lanl.gov/index.html

Hi everyone,

I have recently been introduced to the protovis visualization
library, and I find aspects of it to be incredibly appealing for
certain visualizations that don’t fit some of the canonical chart types.

http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/

Has anyone ever thought of porting the API from protovis and
using the MPL backends to perform the rendering? Is anyone interested
in potentially working on a port? I was thinking we’d initially start
with the static functionality, and ultimately also port the interaction
if there is enough interest.

Uri

Uri Laserson

Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering

Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

M +1 917 742 8019

laserson@…608…



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Those charts are certainly interesting. I haven't looked at the API
(JavaScript?!), but at the very least we could probably add a few new
graphs to our gallery. Maybe use their gallery to inspire some new
chart types in mpl?

Ben Root

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On Monday, November 29, 2010, Uri Laserson <laserson@...608...> wrote:

Hi everyone,
I have recently been introduced to the protovis visualization library, and I find aspects of it to be incredibly appealing for certain visualizations that don't fit some of the canonical chart types.

http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/
Has anyone ever thought of porting the API from protovis and using the MPL backends to perform the rendering? Is anyone interested in potentially working on a port? I was thinking we'd initially start with the static functionality, and ultimately also port the interaction if there is enough interest.

Uri

...................................................................................Uri Laserson
Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
M +1 917 742 8019
laserson@...608...