Polychart - A browser-based platform for exploring data and creating charts

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30 pointsJeeyoungKim3 comments

Creator of Polychart here. We're group of graduating students in University of Waterloo, committed to make visualization and interacting with data easy.

We're trying to tackle this idea from the practical user perspective and theoretical perspective. There are a lot of things to learn from existing systems such as R, Matlab, Maple, Tableau, and Excel. We're also trying to incorporate a lot of ideas from the data visualization community.

We're still very young, I would gladly accept comments and feedbacks from HN community.

Data exploration like this is very interesting, and a problem that's far from solved - so I'm excited about this.

A small UI nitpik: one thing that struck me from the video demo was that your drag targets were on the opposite side of the screen to their source. That seemed a little less discoverable and more involved to use than if they'd been closer.

Excited to see something like this coming from students - you know the pain of using existing software, and I'm hoping that'll help tons as you make something more hip.

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