Chartbuilder

A few folks were asking about open-source alternatives. I've found Quarz's Chartbuilder is really nice, though not able to throw-parameters-in-a-URL which is a super handy feature. Use: https://quartz.github.io/Chartbuilder/ Source: https://github.com/quartz/Chartbuilder/ Chartd looks super awesome for a variety of use cases though, especially if you've got regularly updated data you want to visualize.

The Atlantic's Quartz website has open-sourced a simple D3-based charting program called Chartbuilder. It's not as full-featured as Highcharts, but it's free at any usage level and customizable. Code: https://github.com/Quartz/Chartbuilder Try it: https://quartz.github.io/Chartbuilder/

We developed our own tool, based on https://github.com/Quartz/Chartbuilder that uses Javascript and d3 to draw charts.

I run into A LOT of problems trying to make my own charts, but it also serves to show in many cases that you can't abstract charting to account for all the use cases, because there are so many distinct characteristics in every graphic and dataset. If you want a higher level of abstraction for d3, try Chartbuilder, which I find doesn't cover anywhere near my use cases: https://github.com/Quartz/Chartbuilder. Another tool is Bret Victor's proof-of-content editor: http://worrydream.com/#!/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalk.