IDEAS - possible tools to make chart.xkcd better

[timqian]

Feel free to bring up suggestions for tools to makes chart.xkcd better

Here are some initial ideas

• a website to convert csv data to chart and support
  • download svg
  • embed chart to other website with ease
• cmd tool to convert csv to chart (open up the website above with data sent to the site?)

[timqian]

• xkcd styled css framework like https://github.com/wiredjs/wired-elements ?

[denisinvader]

a website to convert csv data to chart and support
download svg

Those could be solved by Observalbe.

[edit]: I'v already made a minimal prototype for bar chart

cmd tool to convert csv to chart (open up the website above with data sent to the site?)

I think, it would be better to use Node with JSDOM or Puppeteer to generate .svg and .png files locally

[timqian]

Dynamic charts?

• https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d2qrx6/this_video_shows_the_most_popular_programming/

• https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/d55coe/my_typing_speed_over_3_years_oc/
  

[denisinvader]

@timqian I think dynamic charts should be implemented by the update method in every chart and user could write something like this:

const theChart = new chartXkcd.Bar(svg, {
  // chart options and datasets
});

onDataUpdate((newDatasets) => theChart.update({ datasets: newDatasets }));

[denisinvader]

What about stacked and clustered bar charts?