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I'm hoping that Raphael will get higher level API. I think g.Raphael went in that direction but more needs to be done.

jnbiche: maybe I can interest you in https://gist.github.com/1515418 please let me know if there is anything I should add. thanks

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sorry -- I missed your comment until today. You've compiled a great list there! If I had that list when I first started using js(actually coffeescript) for data visualization, it would have saved me a lot of time and effort. I really can't think of anything to add. As I was reading it, I was thinking you should mention cube, but then you did. That will be a great resource to people as more and more web datavis moves away from ActionScript and to Javascript.

Regarding Raphael, I think g.Raphael is a pretty high level interface for creating charts. It's find of on the level of protovis, which was what Mike Bostock was working on before he started d3, basically a declarative approach to chart generation. With d3, he went much lower level. And while this approach offers much greater flexibility, the learning curve is quite steep. It's not a framework you can pick up in a day or two unless you're already quite comfortable with Javascript, SVG, and the DOM.

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