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Olly Smith

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Olly Smith's personal blog at oesmith.co.uk covers programming and web. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2012–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Olly Smith's site for morris.js, a JavaScript charting library, which they cite as an alternative to Highcharts, Flot, Chart.js and others in threads about chart libraries.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /morris.js/
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-02-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. Some alternative JavaScript charting libraries... * Highcharts JS ( http://www.highcharts.com/ ) * Flot ( http://www.flotcharts.org/ ) * NVD3 ( http://nvd3.org/ ) * morris.js ( http://www.oesmith.co.uk/morris.js/ ) * Rickshaw ( http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/ ) * jqPlot ( http://www.jqplot.com/ ) * gRaphaël ( http://g.raphaeljs.com/ ) * YUI charts ( http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/charts/ ) * Polychart.js ( ht…

    Comment linking /morris.js/

    on “An apology to open source”
  2. Submitted Test remote javascript APIs with Capybara and puffing-billy as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. http://www.oesmith.co.uk/morris.js/ is better anyway

    Comment linking /morris.js/

    on “Chart.js is back online”
  4. There is morris.js: http://www.oesmith.co.uk/morris.js/ It has been featured in a railscast: http://railscasts.com/episodes/223-charts-graphs-revised

    Comment linking /morris.js/

    on “Highcharts 3.0 Beta released”
  5. Thanks! Sorry for the late reply. I'm using flot charts [1] for the big traffic graph and peity [2] for the smaller ones. Apart from that, there are some other good options like morris.js [3], Chart.js [4], flotr2 [5], xCharts [6] and sparklines [7]. There are more if you search for them but I've used the ones I mentioned in the template. Added more screenshots of the charts pages. [8] [9] [10] [11] [1] http://www.f…

    Comment linking /morris.js/

    on “Screenshot Saturday”

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