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Charted vs D3.js: What are the differences?
What is Charted? A charting tool that produces automatic, shareable charts from any data file. Charted is a tool for automatically visualizing data, created by the Product Science team at Medium. Provide the link to a data file and Charted returns a beautiful, interactive, and shareable chart of the data.
What is D3.js? A JavaScript visualization library for HTML and SVG. JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. Emphasises on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework.
Charted and D3.js can be primarily classified as "Charting Libraries" tools.
Charted and D3.js are both open source tools. It seems that D3.js with 85.8K GitHub stars and 21K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Charted with 2.73K GitHub stars and 193 GitHub forks.
Pros of Charted
Pros of D3.js
- Beautiful visualizations189
- Svg99
- Data-driven91
- Large set of examples80
- Data-driven documents60
- Visualization components23
- Transitions20
- Dynamic properties18
- Plugins16
- Transformation11
- Makes data interactive7
- Components4
- Enter and Exit4
- Exhaustive3
- Backed by the new york times3
- Open Source3
- Easy and beautiful2
- Angular 41
- Awesome Community Support1
- Simple elegance1
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- Templates, force template1
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Cons of Charted
Cons of D3.js
- Beginners cant understand at all10
- Complex syntax5
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