[Chart] the grammar of graphics

[Carter Schonwald]

woops, got a bit side tracked


the GOG book is very very old school OOP,
the modern ggplot2 lib is slightly different, hadley has a bajillion
examples online + a fairly affordable tiny book walking you through how to
use it.


that said, a lot of ggplot2 comes down to have a monoidal configuration
with good defaults and a monadic interface for the monoidal config, plus
some good default for stacking plots and layering them too!

Theres also that ggplot2 uses R data frames + math modelling tools quite
heavily to the point where it hard to talk about them in isolation. Theres
a reason why I'm working on numerical haskell! :)  (actually, i'm serious,
thats what got me started originally)

a friend of  mine started a prototype of "ggplot2 style thing done right in
haskell, with diagrams for rendering + lens for the query / data
manipulation language" here https://github.com/cscheid/plots Its not really
meant for real use. But you might be able to get some basic ideas from there






On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Tim Docker <tim at dockerz.net> wrote:

>  Hi Carter - I'd still like to here this if/when you have time.
>
>
> On 14/03/14 11:32, Carter Schonwald wrote:
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> hey tim,
> you don't need that book, i'll reply later this evening explaining the key
> insight :)
>
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> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Tim Docker <tim at dockerz.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In developing the API for the chart library, there's always been a
>> tension between type-safety and flexibility, versus suitability for quick
>> and easy use. The current API works fine, but there's still more syntax
>> than I'd like to get a chart into a window.
>>
>> People involved in data analysis and statistics, often cite various
>> libraries as being pleasingly easy to use, (eg: http://ggplot2.org/) and
>> these libraries often claim to be based upon this book:
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/Grammar-Graphics-Statistics-Computing/dp/0387245448
>>
>> Has anyone looked at this book, or have an online reference to something
>> describing it's key ideas? It's an expensive book to buy without knowing
>> that it's going to be worthwhile.
>>
>> Tim
>>
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