Visualizing elasticsearch responses is becoming more and more common. We'd
like to start a community based effort on bringing together, what we feel,
are three very powerful technologies; AngularJS, D3, and elasticsearch.
Without starting a religious war, let me briefly explain why we chose
AngularJS over other alternatives such as Backbone and Ember.
D3 comes from a very prestigious lineage and is arguably one of the most
powerful open source visualizations libraries available. This power comes
at a cost of having a relatively steep learning curve. The goal of dangle
is to minimize this curve as much as possible.
We chose AngularJS for one very specific reason... directives.
Angular directives allow us to create an HTML based DSL around D3, making
it extremely easy to insert (i.e., dangle) graphs from the DOM in a
concise, declarative manner.
Everything is based on SVG. You can set the initial aspect ratio and things
should scale properly depending on the viewing device. Graphs can be styled
with CSS and basic transitions are supported.
The docs contain more configuration and styling information -
I had conversation about Angular JS just Saturday at Open Data Day
Cologne and I think it's sooo great Google stuff. D3 is even greater for
diagrams and chart for faceting. It will getting easier and easier to
set up ES visualizations even for complete JS UI ignorants like me
Eric, keep up the good work!
This looks really awesome, can't wait to play around with it this weekend!
-Zach
On Monday, February 25, 2013 1:39:33 PM UTC-5, egaumer wrote:
Visualizing elasticsearch responses is becoming more and more common. We'd
like to start a community based effort on bringing together, what we feel,
are three very powerful technologies; AngularJS, D3, and elasticsearch.
Without starting a religious war, let me briefly explain why we chose
AngularJS over other alternatives such as Backbone and Ember.
D3 comes from a very prestigious lineage and is arguably one of the most
powerful open source visualizations libraries available. This power comes
at a cost of having a relatively steep learning curve. The goal of dangle
is to minimize this curve as much as possible.
We chose AngularJS for one very specific reason... directives.
Angular directives allow us to create an HTML based DSL around D3, making
it extremely easy to insert (i.e., dangle) graphs from the DOM in a
concise, declarative manner.
Everything is based on SVG. You can set the initial aspect ratio and
things should scale properly depending on the viewing device. Graphs can be
styled with CSS and basic transitions are supported.
I'm interested in a general charts and graphs library for D3. Templates,
if you will, vs. hand-coding a bar chart when I need one. There are a
couple such solutions being worked on (http://nvd3.org/ is the one I'm most
familiar with).
I love the idea of Angular directives for data visualization, but I think
that data visualization isn't a need specific or unique to the Angular
framework. Why not combine efforts with a project such as the above, and
adapt the existing API into Angular directives?
-Carl
On Monday, February 25, 2013 1:39:33 PM UTC-5, egaumer wrote:
Visualizing elasticsearch responses is becoming more and more common. We'd
like to start a community based effort on bringing together, what we feel,
are three very powerful technologies; AngularJS, D3, and elasticsearch.
Without starting a religious war, let me briefly explain why we chose
AngularJS over other alternatives such as Backbone and Ember.
D3 comes from a very prestigious lineage and is arguably one of the most
powerful open source visualizations libraries available. This power comes
at a cost of having a relatively steep learning curve. The goal of dangle
is to minimize this curve as much as possible.
We chose AngularJS for one very specific reason... directives.
Angular directives allow us to create an HTML based DSL around D3, making
it extremely easy to insert (i.e., dangle) graphs from the DOM in a
concise, declarative manner.
Everything is based on SVG. You can set the initial aspect ratio and
things should scale properly depending on the viewing device. Graphs can be
styled with CSS and basic transitions are supported.
I considered that as I was struggling to understand D3. Ultimately it would
have added an additional layer of abstraction, limiting the possibilities
and making integration with Angular more difficult. D3 has some really
insane capabilities and we wanted to have direct access to its APIs without
having to go through some intermediary layer. This allows us to optimize
specifically around Angular and elasticsearch.
There was that whole licensing thing that went down with NVD3 as well and
that made us a bit nervous. Dangle (and elastic.js) are small pieces of a
larger commercial effort we're working on to provide a full featured
distributed application server on top of elasticsearch, adding fine grained
ACLs, OAuth 2.0, HTTPS/SPDY, support for LDAP, Active Directory, OpenId,
etc., distributed cache, WebSockets, and the ability to execute SSJS (via
Rails style controllers that can be hot deployed).
-Eric
On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 7:55:30 AM UTC-5, Carl Sutherland wrote:
Hello Eric,
I'm interested in a general charts and graphs library for D3. Templates,
if you will, vs. hand-coding a bar chart when I need one. There are a
couple such solutions being worked on (http://nvd3.org/ is the one I'm
most familiar with).
I love the idea of Angular directives for data visualization, but I think
that data visualization isn't a need specific or unique to the Angular
framework. Why not combine efforts with a project such as the above, and
adapt the existing API into Angular directives?
-Carl
On Monday, February 25, 2013 1:39:33 PM UTC-5, egaumer wrote:
Visualizing elasticsearch responses is becoming more and more common.
We'd like to start a community based effort on bringing together, what we
feel, are three very powerful technologies; AngularJS, D3, and
elasticsearch.
Without starting a religious war, let me briefly explain why we chose
AngularJS over other alternatives such as Backbone and Ember.
D3 comes from a very prestigious lineage and is arguably one of the most
powerful open source visualizations libraries available. This power comes
at a cost of having a relatively steep learning curve. The goal of dangle
is to minimize this curve as much as possible.
We chose AngularJS for one very specific reason... directives.
Angular directives allow us to create an HTML based DSL around D3, making
it extremely easy to insert (i.e., dangle) graphs from the DOM in a
concise, declarative manner.
Everything is based on SVG. You can set the initial aspect ratio and
things should scale properly depending on the viewing device. Graphs can be
styled with CSS and basic transitions are supported.
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