# Awesome Dataviz

A curated list of awesome open-source data visualizations frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-python and originally created by fasouto.

## Contents

- Awesome dataviz
  - JavaScript tools
    - Charting libraries
    - Charting libraries for graphs
    - Maps
    - d3
    - React
    - Misc
  - Android tools
  - C++ tools
  - Golang tools
  - iOS tools
  - Python tools
  - R tools
  - Ruby tools
  - Markup-based tools
  - Other tools
- Resources
  - Books
  - Catalogs
  - Podcasts
  - Twitter accounts
  - Websites
- Contributing
- License

## JavaScript tools

### Charting libraries

- ApexCharts - Modern & Interactive SVG Charts.
- Chart.js - Charts with the canvas tag.
- Chartist.js - Responsive charts with great browser compatibility.
- dc.js is an multi-Dimensional charting built to work natively with crossfilter.
- Dygraphs - Interactive line charts library that works with huge datasets.
- Echarts - Highly customizable and interactive charts ready for big datasets.
- Epoch - Perfect to create real-time charts.
- Google Charts - Interactive charts for browsers and mobile devices.
- G2 - an interactive and responsive charting library based on the grammar of graphics, maintained by Alibaba
- GraphicsJS - Lightweight JS graphics library with intuitive API, based on SVG/VML.
- lit-line - SVG Line Chart Web Component - light, fast, interactive & fully responsive.
- MetricsGraphics.js - Optimized for time-series data.
- NVD3 - A reusable charting library written in d3.js.
- Plotly.js - Powerful declarative library with support for 20 chart types.
- React wrapper
- TechanJS - Stock and financial charts.
- TOAST UI Chart - Complete library with support for legacy browsers.
- Vizzu - Library for animated data visualizations and data stories.

### Charting libraries for graphs

- Cola.js - A tool to create diagrams using constraint-based optimization techniques. Works with d3 and svg.js.
- Cytoscape.js - JavaScript library for graph drawing maintained by Cytoscape core developers.
- Sigma.js - JavaScript library dedicated to graph drawing.
- VivaGraph - Graph drawing library for JavaScript.
- G6 - Graph visualization library powered by Javascript & Typescript, maintained by Alibaba
- diagram.js - Javascript diagram library serving as the basis for camunda’s online BPMN modeler.
- Uber React Digraph - React.js based directed graph library maintained by UBER.

### Maps

- CARTO - CARTO is an open source tool that allows for the storage and visualization of geospatial data on the web.
- Cesium - WebGL 3D globes and maps.
- Deck.gl - WebGL framework for visual exploratory data analysis of large datasets.
- L7 - Large-scale WebGL-powered Geospatial Data Visualization analysis framework, maintained by Alibaba
- L7 Plot - Geospatial Visualization Chart Library, maintained by Alibaba
- DataMaps - Interactive SVG maps using D3.js.
- Dipper - Map application development framework powered by L7, maintained by Alibaba.
- Leaflet - JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps.
- Mapael - jQuery plugin based on raphael.js to display vector maps.

### d3

- See Awesome D3

### React

- BizCharts - Data visualization library based on G2 and React
- Graphin - Graph visualization library powered by React & Typescript (built on top of G6, maintained by Alibaba.
- React-vis - React components to build data visualizations.
- Recharts - Declarative react components to render D3 charts.
- Victory - Composable components for building interactive data visualizations
- nivo - Supercharged dataviz components for React with isomorphic ability, demo.
- React Svg Textures - Textures.js ported to React. Fully isomorphic.
- DevExtreme React Chart - High-performance plugin-based React chart for Bootstrap and Material Design.

## React Native

- F2 - An elegant, interactive and flexible charting library for mobile, maintained by Alibaba

### Misc

- Graphology - A robust & multipurpose Graph object for javascript & TypeScript; Serves as a base library to power other graph visualization libraries.
- Piecon - Pie charts in your favicon.
- Textures.js - A library to create SVG patterns.
- Timeline.js - Create interactive timelines.
- Vega - Vega is a visualization grammar, a declarative format for creating, saving, and sharing interactive visualization designs.
- Vega-Lite - is a high-level grammar of interactive graphics. It provides a concise JSON syntax for rapidly generating visualizations to support analysis.
- Vis.js - A dynamic visualization library including timeline, networks and graphs (2D and 3D).

## Android tools

- DecoView - Animated circular wheel chart library.
- MPAndroidChart - A powerful & easy to use chart library.
- WilliamChart - Simple chart library.

## C++ tools

- LargeVis - implementation of the LargeVis paper, used to visualize large-scale and high-dimensional data.
- PlotJuggler - open-source Qt5 application to plot charts (based on Qwt).
- Visualization Toolkit (VTK) - open-source library for 3d Graphics, image processing and visualization.

## Golang tools

- svgo - Go Language Library for SVG generation.
- plot - API for building and drawing plots in Go.
- go-echars - Simple yet powerful data visualizing library for Go.

## iOS tools

- BEMSimpleLineGraph - Highly customizable and interactive line graphs.
- Charts - iOS port of MPAndroidChart. You can create charts for both platforms with very similar code.
- JBChartView - Charting library for both line and bar graphs.
- PNChart - A simple and beautiful chart lib used in Piner and CoinsMan.

## Machine Learning tools

- TensorWatch - Debugging and visualization tool for data science and machine learning

## Python tools

- altair - Declarative statistical visualizations, based on Vega-Lite.
- bokeh - Interactive Web Plotting for Python.
- Chartify - Bokeh wrapper that makes it easy for data scientists to create charts.
- diagram - Text mode diagrams using UTF-8 characters
- ggplot - plotting system based on R’s ggplot2.
- glumpy - OpenGL scientific visualizations library.
- holoviews - Complex and declarative visualizations from annotated data.
- ipychart - The power of Chart.js in Jupyter Notebook.
- mayai - interactive scientific data visualization and 3D plotting in Python.
- matplotlib - 2D plotting library.
- missingno - provides flexible toolset of data-visualization utilities that allows quick visual summary of the completeness of your dataset, based on matplotlib.
- plotly - Interactive web based visualization built on top of plotly.js
- pptk - Visualize and work with 2D/3D pointclouds
- PyQtGraph - Interactive and realtime 2D/3D/Image plotting and science/engineering widgets.
- PyVista – 3D plotting and mesh analysis through a streamlined interface for the Visualization Toolkit (VTK)
- seaborn - A library for making attractive and informative statistical graphics.
- toyplot - The kid-sized plotting toolkit for Python with grownup-sized goals.
- three.py - Easy to use 3D library based on PyOpenGL. Inspired by Three.js.
- veusz - Python multiplatform GUI plotting tool and graphing library
- VisPy - High-performance scientific visualization based on OpenGL.
- vtk - 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization that includes a Python interface.
- pandas-profiling - generates statistical analytic reports with visualization for quick data analysis.
- pyechars - Python binding for Echarts library.

## R tools

- ggplot2 - A plotting system based on the grammar of graphics.
- ggvis - A data visualization package with a syntax similar to ggplot2 which allows you to create rich interactive graphics.
- lattice - trellis graphics for R
- plotly - Interactive charts (including adding interactivity to ggplot2 output), cartograms and simple network diagrams
- rbokeh - R Interface to Bokeh.
- rgl - 3D Visualization Using OpenGL
- shiny - Framework for creating interactive applications/visualisations
- visNetwork - Interactive network visualisations

## Ruby tools

- Chartkick - Create charts with one line of Ruby.

## Markup-based tools

- mermaidjs - A simple markdown-like script language for generating charts from text via javascript
- wavedrom.com - Draws your Timing Diagram or Waveform from simple textual description

## Other tools

Tools that are not tied to a particular platform or language. - Charted - A charting tool that produces automatic, shareable charts from any data file. - Gephi - An open-source platform for visualizing and manipulating large graphs - Kepler.gl - Geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets. - Mermaid - A tool used to generate diagrams and flowcharts from text in a similar manner as markdown. - RAW - Create web visualizations from CSV or Excel files. - Spark - Sparklines for the shell. It have several implementations in different languages. - Visual-Insights - Automatic insights extraction and visualization specification in data analysis. - X6 - diagram creation library for rapid construction of DAG diagrams, ER diagrams, flowcharts and other applications, maintained by Alibaba - Graphviz - Open source graph visualization command line tool and library. From input text to SVG,PDF,interactive web graph browser.

# Resources

## Books

- Design for Information by Isabel Meirelles.
- The Best American Infographics 2014 by Gareth Cook.
- The Grammar of Graphics by Leland Wilkinson. Basic visualization theory.
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte.
- The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics by Dona M. Wong
- Visualization Analysis and Design by Tamara Munzner.
- Interactive Data Visualization for the Web by Scott Murray. Available to read online. Focused on D3.
- Data Visualization Toolkit by Barrett Austin Clark. Uses D3, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, PostGIS, & Leaflet.
- Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design by Andy Kirk

## Catalogs

- The Data Visualization Catalogue - A collection of data visualization methods, with pros and cons.
- Data Viz Project
- The R Graph Gallery
- From data to Viz
- Chartopedia
- Interactive Chart Chooser by Depict Data Studio
- Wikipedia
  - Data visualization techniques
  - List of graphical methods
  - Types of diagrams
  - Types of plots
  - Types of charts

## Podcasts

- Data Stories
- DataFramed
- Data Viz Today

## Twitter accounts

- Alberto Cairo
- Andrei Kashcha
- Benjamin Wiederkehr
- Jan Žák
- Mara Averick
- Martin Wattenberg
- Mike Bostock
- Nadieh Bremer
- NYT Graphics
- Visualizing

## Websites

- Data For Visualization blog - Storytelling with data from the software developer’s eye
- Ann K. Emery’s blog
- Data Visualization Society - The Data Visualization Society is an organization dedicated to fostering community for data visualization professionals.
- eagereyes
- EvergreenData
- FlowingData
- Information is Beautiful
- Junk Charts - Kaiser Fung takes apart why certain datavizes work/don’t work
- Lisa Rost thinks and discusses about why we dataviz
- Makeover Monday blog - #MakeoverMonday on twitter
- The Open News blog - Open news has some good dataviz related articles from time to time
- The Pudding
- Truth & Beauty Operations
- University of Washington Interactive Data Lab Papers
- vis4.net - Random thoughts on visualization and data journalism by Gregor Aisch

# Contributing

- Please check for duplicates first.
- Keep descriptions short, simple and unbiased.
- Please make an individual commit for each suggestion
- Add a new category if needed.

Thanks for your suggestions!

# Contributors

- Fabio Souto originally createad this repo, connect with Fabio at fabiosouto.me.
- Javier Luraschi is the current maintainer, he builds predictive visualizations at Hal9.

If you have any question about this opinionated list, do not hesitate to contact me @javierluraschi on Twitter or open a GitHub issue.