CytoscapeJS vs. D3 graph drawing

[Benjamin Hitz]

Hey 

We have multiple (small) dev teams working on doing various JS visualizations.  It turns out that - at this time - one group has used cytoscapeJS and the other used D3.

Neither could really give me a good reason why one should be chosen over the other - other than if we use D3 for other types of visualizations (bar or pie charts for example), then "one fewer JS library to load" IS technically  a positive.

Can anyone give me some bullet points as to why they would prefer CytoscapeJS, or at least specific applications where it's better (easier to use, more performant, etc.)

Thanks,

Ben

[Christian Lopes]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16776005/what-is-the-difference-between-d3-js-and-cytoscape-js/16992523#16992523

Thanks,

Christian

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[Keiichiro Ono]

(Disclaimer: I'm a core developer of Cytoscape)

D3.js is useful because it has nice presets for many types of data.
However, for network visualization, cytoscape.js has more advanced
features, including compound nodes, built-in user interaction just
like Cytoscape, etc. I think it's worth using multiple libraries if
you work on serious data visualization projects. Recently I've
developed simple web app prototype to visualize DAGs and trees, and it
uses several libraries including cytoscape.js, highcharts, etc.

http://chardonnay.ucsd.edu/dist/ (click any nodes to see visualization)

And I'm planning to extend it using treemap and other visualization
presets available in D3.js. It costs users few more seconds for
loading, but I think it's worth it if you work on relatively large SPA
(single-page application).

Thanks,
Kei


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[Ben Hitz]

Ha, that's the first thing I did.  I found stackoverflow not super useful for this question.  Also I wanted to make sure my cytoscape dev friends got a chance to answer!

Ben

On Thursday, August 29, 2013 12:06:54 PM UTC-7, Christian Lopes wrote:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16776005/what-is-the-difference-between-d3-js-and-cytoscape-js/16992523#16992523

[Ben Hitz]

Thanks for your comments Kei.

http://chardonnay.ucsd.edu/dist/   (click any nodes to see visualization) 

Pretty nice.  Is this from the NeXO 1 or 2 github source?

Ben