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Dev tools · May 3, 2010

streamgraph.js, now on github

Streamgraphs are cool. They're great at displaying trends in data over time, similar to a stacked graph, but much prettier. The first one I saw was Lee Byron's Last.fm listening history graphic, a...

streamgraph.js, now on github launched on May 3, 2010 with 7 votes, #8 of 20 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 16 years on.

What it does

Streamgraphs are cool. They’re great at displaying trends in data over time, similar to a stacked graph, but much prettier. The first one I saw was Lee Byron's Last.fm listening history graphic, a beautiful poster showing trends in the music he had listened to over the course of two years. The New York Times used an interactive streamgraph (created by Matthew Bloch and Shawn Carter) to great effect to show box office receipts over 22 years in The Ebb and Flow of Movies . When Lee Byron & Martin Wattenberg open-sourced their streamgraph implementation in Java and Processing, I was pretty excited. I’ve been playing around with processing.js a lot lately, so I decided to port their…from runningwithdata.tumblr.com

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