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Awesome Dataviz

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

JavaScript tools

Charting libraries

ApexCharts

Modern & Interactive SVG Charts.

Chart.js

Charts with the canvas tag.

Chartist.js

Responsive charts with great browser compatibility.

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.

  • dc.js is an multi-Dimensional charting built to work natively with crossfilter.

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](https://www.cytoscape.org) 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](https://github.com/antvis/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](https://nivo.rocks).

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](https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00370), 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](#r-tools) 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](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js)

pptk

Visualize and work with 2D/3D pointclouds

PyQtGraph

Interactive and realtime 2D/3D/Image plotting and science/engineering widgets.

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.

  • PyVista – 3D plotting and mesh analysis through a streamlined interface for the Visualization Toolkit (VTK)

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

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](https://github.com/holman/spark/wiki/Alternative-Implementations).

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.

Tools that are not tied to a particular platform or language.

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 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
The Pudding
Truth & Beauty Operations
University of Washington Interactive Data Lab Papers
vis4.net

Random thoughts on visualization and data journalism by Gregor Aisch

  • Data For Visualization blog - Storytelling with data from the software developer's eye
  • Ann K. Emery's blog
  • Makeover Monday blog - #MakeoverMonday on twitter
  • The Open News blog - Open news has some good dataviz related articles from time to time

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.