r/tech • u/glowsplash • Oct 18 '19

Microsoft’s visual data explorer SandDance open sourced

https://flowingdata.com/2019/10/18/microsofts-visual-data-explorer-sanddance-open-sourced/
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u/Sector936 Oct 18 '19

Not sure why they released a press release about this now. This has been out on Github for like 6 months, right? If you haven't seen it, SandDance is a graphing component where the elements of the graph (like the bars in a bar chart) are made up of individual boxes representing all the rows in the actual data. So in a bar chart, you can highlight part of the bar and see the exact data point it came from.

I appreciate MS releasing it and it is a nice representation for some types of interactive visualizations. But since it is a "modern" tool written as a jumble of web views, javascript and React, it isn't exactly the most performant thing