Ruby plotting/graphing libraries?

[Chris Lowis]

Any interest in a talk on data visualisation / plotting / graphing in
Ruby? A quick tour through the various options with some take-away
code examples, covering, perhaps:

- Gruff
- Google/other web API based approaches
- Gnuplot (with Ruby bindings)
- R
- Metapost
- some Java plotting libs accessible through jruby (not tried much
myself, but it's something I've been meaning to research).

I could cover some of the non-plotting power of R too, if there's some
interest in that, perhaps building on my 6-minute lightning talk
earlier this year at LRUG. (http://blog.chrislowis.co.uk/2009/02/15/
LRUG-R-Ruby-talk.html)

I'd love to come to the Manor again ... !

Chris

[Chris Lowis]

I think this would fit into a picture-heavy-with-code-samples-to-read-
later 15 minute session.

[Matt House]

This sounds awesome. I've played a little with gruff and found it a
bit lacking. So would be very interested in hearing about alternatives

Matt.

[David Salgado]

I'd definitely like to hear about some of the options available. I
looked into this briefly, some time ago, and settled on Google charts
as the quickest way of getting something up and running, but ISTR I
did find it quite limited and a bit quirky. So, I'd be very keen to
hear some of the pros and cons of other options.

David

2009/11/16 Matt House <matt...@reevoo.com>:

[Nasir]

+1 for this. Sometime back I was looking into charting tools like gruff, scruffy, rrdtool, etc. It would be great if you can also cover RRDTool.

Nas

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I'd definitely like to hear about some of the options available. I
looked into this briefly, some time ago, and settled on Google charts
as the quickest way of getting something up and running, but ISTR I

did find it quite l,imited and a bit quirky. So, I'd be very keen to

[Levent Ali]

+1

I settled on Raphael JS (which I like) but didn't do enough research
at the time and would love to hear about other options

Not sure if those of us without tickets can vote but hey ho

[James Adam]

On 17 Nov 2009, at 08:34, Levent Ali wrote:
> Not sure if those of us without tickets can vote but hey ho

You absolutely can, since all of the talks will be recorded. You should definitely try to influence the schedule so you get to see what you think will be interesting, even if that's only over the internets.

The best bet for getting one of the remaining tickets at the moment is to suggest a talk, but we'll be making the final set available soon.

- James

[Matt Patterson]

On 16 Nov 2009, at 20:30, Chris Lowis wrote:

> Any interest in a talk on data visualisation / plotting / graphing in
> Ruby? A quick tour through the various options with some take-away
> code examples, covering, perhaps:

+1

> I could cover some of the non-plotting power of R too, if there's some
> interest in that, perhaps building on my 6-minute lightning talk
> earlier this year at LRUG. (http://blog.chrislowis.co.uk/2009/02/15/
> LRUG-R-Ruby-talk.html)

++1

That would be awesome. My wife has just started using R for her PhD and it's clearly a weird and wonderful thing...

Matt

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[Chris Lowis]

I'm glad there's some interest in this. I can already see the talk
getting some structure too, thanks for suggesting a couple of
libraries for me to check out.

James/Murray - any idea when the talks will be selected?

Cheers,

Chris

[edavey]

Another vote in favour. I would be interested both in the survey of
available visualisation libraries and/or a more in depth look at
RSRuby (i.e. going deeper than the excellent intro at LRUG a while
back).

Ed