[Chart] Chart Digest, Vol 11, Issue 1

[Sacha Sokoloski]

This is great news! I was toying with the idea of something like this, 
but knew I would never have time. I've recently written my master's 
thesis in machine learning and control theory, and used haskell for all 
the programming, and charts for all the plotting. People are nothing but 
impressed by the quality of the plots that chart produces. They truly 
look fantastic. Thanks Tim!

I also wrote up an 'animatePlot' function that allows me to simulate 2d 
systems, and I can draw 40/50 fps of fairly complicated layouts and 
grids no problem. I still also have a contour plot algorithm lying 
around. I would be happy to integrate these things into chart at some 
point, but maybe it would make more sense until we know what's going on 
with this diagrams backend?

Finally, I'm excited to see that chart is migrating to lenses. Seems 
like a natural move. Can I put to vote one cosmetic change since the 
lens change would require some basic refactoring anyway? I'm not fond of 
the naming convention 'plot_lines_title'. Would anyone else simply 
prefer 'plotLinesTitle'?

I think there's a lot of demand for good scientific packages in haskell. 
Chart is already a great library, it's only not as full featured as it 
could be, and there are still some lingering issues. Integrating it with 
diagrams I think is a great step to integrating it as a core haskell 
library.

Regards,

  - Sacha

P.S.: I only just got this message on the 14th of May.

On 14/05/13 01:00 PM, chart-request at projects.haskell.org wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:53:16 +1000
> From: Tim Docker<tim at dockerz.net>
> Subject: [Chart] Chart, Diagrams Library, GSOC
> To:chart at projects.haskell.org
> Message-ID:<5175A33C.2020603 at dockerz.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Hi,
>
> There is a discussion on the diagrams mailing list about possible
> integration between diagrams and Chart, via a Google Summer of Code project:
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/diagrams-discuss/WjYNplD5Upw
>
> Take a look if you are interested.
>
> Tim