- Source: RAWGraphs
RAWGraphs is a web-based open-source data visualization software made in JavaScript. It employs D3.js for the creation of editable visualizations in SVG format.
History
The project was started in 2013 by a group of researchers of Politecnico di Milano with the original name of "RAW". Version 1.0.0 was released in 2014. In the same year the tool won the "Most Beautiful" award at the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards 2014 organized by David McCandless.
In 2017 the project was re-launched thanks to private support. It changed the license from LGPL to Apache 2 and the project name to "RAWGraphs".
In August 2019 the team launched a crowdfunding campaign to harvest economical support for developing a new version of the tool. Version 2.0.0 was released in September 2020 to backers, and publicly in February 2021.
The new version presents a modular architecture composed by a core JavaScript library, an expandable library of visual models, and a web-based GUI written in React.
Applications
RAWGraphs has been used in a number of research projects in academia, and is used also by journalist and graphic designer thanks to its ability of creating clean, SVG-based images that can be further edited with any other software.
Available charts
In version 2.0 the available charts are:
Alluvial diagram
Arc diagram
Bar chart
Multi-set bar chart
Stacked bar chart
Beeswarm plot
Box plot
Bumpchart
Circle packing
Dendrograms:
Circular dendrogram
Linear dendrogram
Gantt chart
Horizon graph
Line chart
Matrix Plot
Parallel coordinates
Radar chart
Sankey diagram
Scatterplots:
Bubble chart
Contour plot over bubble chart
Convex hull grouping
Hexagonal binning grouping
Streamgraph (also known as Area chart)
Sunburst diagram
Treemap
Violin plot
Voronoi Diagram
Data Inputs
the software can load data from the following sources:
static files (CSV, TSV, Excel files)
Data from endpoints (in tabular or JSON format)
Data from SPARQL endpoints (e.g. Wikidata)