chart-unit

chart-unit is a chart library providing a chart ADT, combinators and a small set of high-quality charts using native haskell.

Chart Types

The chart types include:

Why the name chart-unit?

Most of the behind-the-scenes grunt work is scaling data, projecting points from one range to another, and computing position. A key to making these computations neat was one = Range -0.5 0.5 and one = Rect -0.5 0.5 -0.5 0.5 as the (multiplicative) units of a chart range. See numhask-range for a monologue.

What's with the funny names?

Charting is an age-old craft, and stuffed to the brim with cliche and jargon. I wanted to cut through the cruft of what is thought of as a chart (and charting has been dominated by excel for 30 years), and approach charting from a haskelly perspective. The funny names were the cohorts that popped out. A rough translation:

Gallery

Composable chart types and the power of diagrams make it easy to invent new charts. Here's some inspiration (all code for these charts is in examples/gallery.hs).

grid

time

Chart.Data.Time deals with the scenario where you want to plot a time series consecutively (y values are [0..]) but there are gaps in the seris such as no data on weekend days.

schoolbook

From the Haskell survey ...

q7

q24

histogram diff

combined scatter histogram

clipping

skinny

tests

Differences between text methods, across alignments

workflow

stack build --test --haddock --exec "$(stack path --local-install-root)/bin/chart-unit-source-examples" --exec "$(stack path --local-install-root)/bin/chart-unit-main-example" --exec "$(stack path --local-install-root)/bin/chart-unit-gallery" --exec "$(stack path --local-bin)/pandoc -f markdown -i other/header.md readme.md other/footer.md -t html -o index.html --filter pandoc-include --mathjax" --file-watch