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Life & fun · December 19, 2012

Dynamic Charts library built upon D3

I made a little library to make it easier having dinamically filled charts. The goal of the library is making your life easier; it is not too elaborate from a graphic point of view, but every chart Object can be easily extended trough inheritance. There are four kind of charts at the moment: 3 histogram charts and a wheel shaped one. All the charts objects support multidimensional data, have plenty of built-in methods to change style-related details, such as colors, as well as modifying preferences about labels. legend, title, and deciding whether each subcomponent of a multidimensional…

Dynamic Charts library built upon D3 launched on December 19, 2012 with 12 votes, #114 of 501 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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In plain words

Dynamic Charts library is a JavaScript tool built on D3 for creating charts with dynamically updated data. It offers four chart types: three histogram variations and one wheel-shaped chart, all supporting multidimensional datasets. The library prioritizes ease of use and extensibility through inheritance rather than elaborate graphics. Users can customize colors, labels, legends, and titles, and control how data scales across dimensions. Charts have configurable maximum capacities with options for managing overflow data.

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Dynamic Charts Showcase - by Marcello La Rocca. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

In the maker’s words, at launch

I made a little library to make it easier having dinamically filled charts. The goal of the library is making your life easier; it is not too elaborate from a graphic point of view, but every chart Object can be easily extended trough inheritance. There are four kind of charts at the moment: 3 histogram charts and a…

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