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Charted vs Plotly: What are the differences?

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; Plotly: The Web's fastest growing charting libraries. Plotly.js is the only open-source JavaScript library for data visualization in the sciences and engineering. Open-source interfaces to Plotly.js are available for Python, R, MATLAB, and React.

Charted and Plotly can be primarily classified as "Charting Libraries" tools.

Some of the features offered by Charted are:

  • Rendering well on all screen sizes, including monitors
  • Re-fetching the data and updating the chart every 30 minutes
  • Moving data series into separate charts

On the other hand, Plotly provides the following key features:

  • Feature parity with MATLAB/matplotlib graphing
  • Online chart editor
  • Fully interactive (hover, zoom, pan)

Charted and Plotly are both open source tools. Plotly with 10.4K GitHub stars and 1.21K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Charted with 2.73K GitHub stars and 193 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Charted
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      Bindings to popular languages like Python, Node, R, etc
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      Integrated zoom and filter-out tools in charts and maps
    • 9
      Great support for complex and multiple axes
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      Powerful out-of-the-box featureset
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      Beautiful visualizations
    • 4
      Active user base
    • 4
      Impressive support for webgl 3D charts
    • 3
      Charts are easy to share with a cloud account
    • 3
      Webgl chart types are extremely performant
    • 2
      Interactive charts
    • 2
      Easy to use online editor for creating plotly.js charts
    • 2
      Publication quality image export

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    Cons of Charted
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        Terrible document

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      What is Charted?

      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 Plotly.js?

      It is a standalone Javascript data visualization library, and it also powers the Python and R modules named plotly in those respective ecosystems (referred to as Plotly.py and Plotly.R). It can be used to produce dozens of chart types and visualizations, including statistical charts, 3D graphs, scientific charts, SVG and tile maps, financial charts and more.

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