Re: On Request Scientific Graphing Online

[Benj. N. Sugar]

it always pains me to say this as i heart pjs but pjs would not be my first choice.

see the following thread for my reasoning: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/processingjs/aleLRQjjeTQ/YD27sZpMU0sJ

short story:

http://d3js.org

http://g.raphaeljs.com/

I have not heard of a library that has an integrated server and client set up.  However, d3 is pretty great about it.  It has it's own API for getting data from a database or a file from a server in a few different formats.  Additionally, it has functions to filter and update your data client side.  All of the other libraries I have seen would either require you to create your own filtering functions on the client or server.

[sig...@kcl.ac.uk]

I do not know if this would suit, but of you can use Java server-side there is Waterloo Scientific Graphics which can export to a number of vector graphics formats - most recently using Processing script. A PDEGraphics2D subclass of the standard java.awt.Graphics2D class is passed to the paint mechanisms. Once painting is complete, you can just call getCode() on the PDEGraphics2D object. Wateloo Beta (currently only available via Git) supports all the chart types you list.

For details see http://waterloo.sourceforge.net/PDEGraphics2D/

ML

On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9:39:06 PM UTC+1, AdolfoE Aguirre wrote:

Hi:

I am a Geographer that needs to receive environmental data at a website, in almost real time, . The data should be available to be graphed on request. xy, pie, and polar windrose to begin with.

The question is what tool to use that can graph but also integrates well as a server and database.

A few years ago I look into Matplotlib and IDL because they were common scientific tools, but their web server implementation was for a hacker. Thus, the question now is whether JS could do this work.

Any help will be much appreciated,

Adolfo

In Patagonia