Minard – Generate beautiful charts with natural language
Hi HN – Excited to share a beta for Minard, a new data visualization toolkit we've been working on that lets you generate publication-quality charts with simple natural language (throw away your matplotlib docs and rejoice!). Upload or import CSVs, Excel, and JSON, give it a spin, and please let us know what you think! (Long format data works best for now) For those curious, the stack is a simple Django app with HTMX/Alpine and all of the charts are specified and rendered as Vega (https://vega.github.io/vega/). Lots of LLM function calling under the hood as well.
Minard – Generate beautiful charts with natural language launched on April 18, 2024 with 28 votes, #764 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Minard is a data visualization toolkit that generates publication-quality charts using natural language instructions. Users upload or import data from CSVs, Excel, or JSON files, then describe their desired visualization in plain language. The tool uses LLM function calling to interpret requests and renders charts through Vega. It is designed for analysts, researchers, and professionals who need to create charts without learning complex visualization syntax.
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