[Dune-devel] GSoc update

[Miha Čančula]

2013/7/15 Christian Engwer <christian.engwer at uni-muenster.de>

> Hi Miha
>
> > I believe now is the time when I should start thinking about the
> > visualizations. I think HTML pages generated from the database are the
> > simplest options (i.e. require the least dependencies for the users),
> > rather than using something like Gnuplot or even Excel. I remember you
> said
> > you have a recommendation for a Javascript library for generating the
> > charts, but did not remember which one it was. I would like to use
> > Highcharts, mostly because the graphs look very nice (
> > http://www.highcharts.com/demo/). They are, however, not open source,
> but
> > covered by a Creative Commons Non-Commercial license. I suppose DUNE is
> > non-commercial, so there wouldn't by any problems, but I would rather
> check
> > with you. Different libraries use different data formats, which is why I
> > would like to know which one to use as soon as possible.
>
> I played a little with DyGraphs (dygraphs.com) which is licensed under
> MIT License.
>
> It gave quite nice results and was able to read csv data either from
> an other source, or from within the html file (which is the only
> option working for local use)
>
> What I like with highcharts is the annotation, which might come handy
> when trying to plot the revision number with the data. Something
> similar should be possible with dygraph as well, but I never took the
> time to actually write it myself.
>
DyGraphs look very nice, I don't know why I haven't found about them
myself.
I would prefer something with a proper free license. It appears to have some
annotations (http://dygraphs.com/gallery/#g/annotations), it shouldn't be
that
hard to place them on the graph for each data point.

All in all, unless someone suggests a better option, I would go with
dygraph.
I like their demos, and I will try to read the documentation now.

>
> Cheers
> Christian
>
> PS: We decided to take future discussions to the dune-devel
> list... thus I added them in the TO
>
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