Are there updated docs?

[mstade]

Great library, really liking the concepts! That said, the documentation seems out of date. For example, there is no documentation that I can find on the annotation plugin. I made my visualization work by looking at examples in this repo, and reading the plugin code, but I still don't fully understand how it works.

Are there updated docs anywhere? Many thanks!

[Mavrin]

Hi, thank you for feedback. Yes, it is really problem that we have lack of documentations. And I can't promise that will changed in near future. But if you want to help project, pull request to https://github.com/targetprocess/taucharts-docs are welcome.

[mstade]

Hey buddy, thanks for the candid response! I really like the taucharts concept, and the execution is also great – great design out of the box, easy to use, performance is good, and the few bits of the code I've read to try and figure out how to do certain things have been very well written in my opinion. I will see if I can find the time to help improve the docs in places.

To that end, I'm still in the process of evaluating tau over other options. Maybe you can help clear some things up? What really sets tau apart from most other options I think is the declarative nature of the configurations, whereas most other chart libraries are quite mechanical and procedural. Thus, I don't really care to compare tau to "typical" charting libraries and I'm sure you know what I mean by that but for example, it's my understanding the vega-lite (and by extension, vega) is an effort in similar vein, but with different means of execution – would you agree with this, and how would you say Tau stacks up in comparison? In similar vein, what would you say some of Tau's other "competitors" (for lack of better word) are?

Also, am I understanding correctly that you're actively using Tau as part of the TargetProcess product?

[mstade]

Btw, is the name a play on pie charts? :o)

I.e. pie charts are almost always the wrong choice, just like proponents of tau say pi is almost always the wrong choice, thus piecharts (wrong) => taucharts (right)? I love it.

[Mavrin]

Btw, is the name a play on pie charts? :o)
It is coincidence. But It sounds so cool :)

We use actively tauCharts as part of https://vizydrop.com/ and Vizydrop is embedded Targetprocess, Fibery, Trello, Jira.

You are right tau is not typical" charting library. We wanted to implement grammar of graphics in browser. I have many ideas how to improve tauCharts. Many parts of library needs rewriting. It would be good add polar cordinate system (radar, pie chart).
I like vega-lite. It is intresting project with good concept. I can recommend look at https://g2.antv.vision/ It is another implementation grammar of graphics.