Thursday, March 27, 2014

Vega: A Visualization Grammar

Vega: A Visualization Grammar:
"Vega is a visualization grammar, a declarative format for creating, saving and sharing visualization designs. 

With Vega you can describe data visualizations in a JSON format, and generate interactive views using either HTML5 Canvas or SVG."


As mentioned in this podcast, it is using D3, and D3 creator Mike Bostock (PhD student on Stanford, NY Times, Square) is advisor on Vega project.

podcast:
Data Stories #22: NYT Graphics and D3 with Mike Bostock and Shan Carter | Data Stories

Vega and D3 · trifacta/vega Wiki


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