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Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms is a data visualization tool designed for users who need to render large time-series datasets efficiently. It handles three years of hourly data points with fast performance… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Creator here. I built ChartGPU because I kept hitting the same wall: charting libraries that claim to be "fast" but choke past 100K data points. The core insight: Canvas2D is fundamentally CPU-bound. Even WebGL chart libraries still do most computation on the CPU. So I moved everything to the GPU via WebGPU: - LTTB downsampling runs as a compute shader - Hit-testing for tooltips/hover is GPU-accelerated - Rendering uses instanced draws (one draw call per series) The result: 1M points at 60fps with smooth zoom/pan. Live demo:…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    📈 A small, fast chart for time series, lines, areas, ohlc & bars - leeoniya/uPlot

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    GraphFast▲266

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    Over the weekend I was discussing the latest news relating to open weights with some of my non-techie friends. After 30 mins of waffling, I realised it is quite a long and interesting story, with many twists and turns. I've always wanted to create a 'long scroll' story, but have never found a suitable story to tell. This felt like a fun weekend project to undertake. The story itself doesn't have too many scroll effects (which is probably a good thing), it was more about trying to tell a story with a certain style that wouldn't really fit on my personal blog. Would love to get your feedback…

    2020 · blog.scottlogic.com · its alternatives →

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    QuestDB live demo. Query three large datasets and more than 2 billion rows in milliseconds with SQL

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    Epoch▲95

    A general purpose library for building real-time charts.

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    I often need to convert times between time zones, so I built this tool to convert between them quickly and efficiently. 1. Add the cities you want to convert between (this is saved in the browser). 2. Drag on the map until the time on the source city is the time you want. 3. Look at the time at the other city. It's even more helpful to use on a phone since it doesn't require typing to convert between time zones or look up the time in another city (assuming you already added the cities you care about). If you need to convert a time far in the future, you can input the date and time in the…

    Sep 2026 · ishamf.dev · its alternatives →

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    API for beautiful interactive graphics from time-series data

    2014 · metricsgraphicsjs.org · its alternatives →

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    Hourly▲84

    Beautiful, clever time tracking and analytics

    2017 · hourlytime.com · its alternatives →

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    A living gallery of unusual, creative, and beautiful ways to display the current time.

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    Hello HN. I've always found writing data visualisation scripts boring and repetitive in data science workflows earlier in my career, so I built this tool to automate it. The available methods are based on my experience in econometrics where histograms and scatterplots were the starting points to check data distributions. The link is to the documentation and the app is freely available at https://visprex.com, and if you're curious about the implementation it's open source at https://github.com/visprex/visprex. I'd appreciate any comments and feedback!

    2024 · docs.visprex.com · its alternatives →

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    Visualize 100+ years of climate change where you live ❄️🌎🔥

    2019 · showyourstripes.info · its alternatives →

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    Open source simple, correct, embeddable charts in minutes

    2014 · datawrapper.de · its alternatives →

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    Global Temperature Change WebGL</i> is an experiment that tries to illustrate how global temperatures on earth have changed between 1850 and 2016.

    2016 · callumprentice.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Visuals▲109

    Upload your data and let AI generate charts in seconds

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    Tinychart▲220

    Create and export beautiful charts in minutes

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    Visualize your day as 144 rectangles, where each rectangle represents 10 minutes.

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    Lychee▲152

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