go-chart VS plot

Compare go-chart vs plot and see what are their differences.

go-chart

go chart is a basic charting library in go. (by wcharczuk)

plot

A concise API for exploratory data visualization implementing a layered grammar of graphics (by observablehq)
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go-chart plot
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3,906 3,862
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6.0 9.1
4 months ago 4 days ago
Go HTML
MIT License ISC License
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go-chart

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-chart. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-20.
  • What is the closest thing from Seaborn (python) in Go?
    3 projects | /r/golang | 20 May 2023
  • Create interactive figures with go-plotly!
    3 projects | /r/golang | 18 Jul 2021
    I have used both https://github.com/wcharczuk/go-chart and https://github.com/gonum/gonum/tree/master/graph for charts, but my need for charts and graphs isn't constant. Since these are far more popular projects, there might be some hesitance for people to use something else without a specific differentiator. What is the biggest difference in your mind? I use a fair bit of Python, but not for graphs and charts. Is yours more similar to plotly? I know Gonum gets a lot of inspiration from Python libraries, but perhaps yours is a more specific equivalent to Plotly? I don't know exactly what you mean about interactivity until I get to play with it. I'm wrapping up a master's project now and might have a few weeks to poke at some visualizations.
  • How should I approach plotting (2d and 3d) in Golang project?
    4 projects | /r/golang | 21 Mar 2021
    So far I've been using gonum anyway the couple times I've needed a chart, so I've used gonum, and while I did get confused in a few cases, I never tried the alternative I've heard mentioned: https://github.com/wcharczuk/go-chart Not sure how it compares, but if I ever have some time, I would love to contribute to gonum especially.

plot

Posts with mentions or reviews of plot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-25.
  • Vega-Altair: Declarative Visualization in Python
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2024
    I love Vega(-lite) / Altair, the grammar of graphics plotting system is really great to build any kind of chart even when it wasn't thought through by the authors of the library. There are other wrappers for languages that lack viz libraries, such as Elixir / Livebook [0]

    However, when I used it a couples years back it struggled with large vizs, I think due to Vega(-lite)'s way of embedding the data in the viz artifact.

    Also, interactive is nice but often I just need a quick static plot, and matplotlib is more convenient for this, you can easily see the png in any environment etc.

    These days I'm eager to see an Observable Plot [1] wrapper for Python !

    [0] https://github.com/livebook-dev/vega_lite

    [1] https://github.com/observablehq/plot

  • Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2024
    Good questions.

    1. It’s just JavaScript so you can fetch stuff dynamically too (see https://observablehq.com/framework/lib/duckdb). But yeah, only client-side. (Though see https://github.com/observablehq/framework/issues/234.)

    2. Sure, it’s all open source, I bet you could make that work. Or `yarn deploy` to Observable and configure sharing there (though it wouldn’t let you charge others).

    3. Yup. Which is part of the appeal of model of running data loaders at build time: you can query some private data and viewers would only be able to see the final result set. (The lack of something like this has always been a huge problem for Observable notebooks. You’d make some great query-driven charts and then couldn’t make it public without some awkward manual dance of downloading and re-uploading a file to a fork of the notebook.)

    4. I wish I knew! It’s being tracked here https://github.com/observablehq/plot/issues/1711. Lately there’s been a lot more work on Framework naturally but now that that’s out…

    5. Another good question. We’re definitely interested in tailoring it more to this sort of use case but lots is TBD!

  • Using Deno with Jupyter Notebook to build a data dashboard
    5 projects | dev.to | 17 Jan 2024
    Observable Plot: A library built on top of D3.js used to visualize data and iterate more quickly on different plot chart
  • What website frameworks are used to build these websites?
    3 projects | /r/webdev | 9 Dec 2023
    https://observablehq.com/
  • Yandex open sourced it's BI tool DataLens
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2023
    Observable Plot [0] is also nice. AFAIU it's the same library powering the visualizations within Observable itself.

    [0] https://observablehq.com/plot/

  • Best React charting libraries for data visualizations
    1 project | /r/react | 27 May 2023
    I liked observablehq plot library: https://github.com/observablehq/plot
  • Bank Failures Visualized
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2023
  • Observable Plot: A JavaScript library for exploratory data visualization
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 28 Apr 2023
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 28 Apr 2023
  • Observable Plot: The JavaScript library for exploratory data visualization
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 27 Apr 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing go-chart and plot you can also consider the following projects:

asciigraph - Go package to make lightweight ASCII line graph ╭┈╯ in command line apps with no other dependencies.

plot-react - React wrapper for @observablehq/plot

g3n - Go 3D Game Engine (http://g3n.rocks)

blazor-samples - Explore and learn Syncfusion Blazor components using large collection of demos, example applications and tutorial samples

canvas - Canvas is a Go drawing library based on OpenGL or using software rendering that is very similar to the HTML5 canvas API

echarts - Apache ECharts is a powerful, interactive charting and data visualization library for browser

diagram - CLI app to convert ASCII arts into hand drawn diagrams.

go-echarts - 🎨 The adorable charts library for Golang

gonum/plot - A repository for plotting and visualizing data

d3 - Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. :bar_chart::chart_with_upwards_trend::tada:

go-plotly - The goal of the go-plotly package is to provide a pleasant Go interface for creating figure specifications which are displayed by the plotly.js JavaScript graphing library.

gonum - Gonum is a set of numeric libraries for the Go programming language. It contains libraries for matrices, statistics, optimization, and more