Gadfly Alternatives

Gadfly is described as 'System for plotting and visualization written in Julia. It is based largely on Hadley Wickhams's ggplot2 for R and Leland Wilkinson's book The Grammar of Graphics. It was Daniel C. Jones' brainchild and is now maintained by the community' and is an app in the development category. There are five alternatives to Gadfly for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and iPhone apps. The best Gadfly alternative is Matplotlib, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Gadfly are D3.js, Plotly, Bokeh and ggvis.

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  1. Matplotlib icon
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    Matplotlib is a comprehensive library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python. Matplotlib makes easy things easy and hard things possible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • BSD
     
    • Matplotlib is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Gadfly.

    • Matplotlib is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Gadfly.

    • Matplotlib is Free and Open SourceGadfly is also Free and Open Source
  2. D3.js icon
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    D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS.

    76 D3.js alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • D3.js is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to Gadfly.

    • D3.js is Free and Open SourceGadfly is also Free and Open Source
  3. Plotly icon
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    Plotly is the easiest way to graph and share data online. Open-source libraries for JavaScript (comparison with HighCharts at https://plot.ly/highcharts-alternative/), Python, R, and MATLAB.

    91 Plotly alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
     
    • Plotly is the most popular iPhone alternative to Gadfly.

    • Plotly is Freemium and Open SourceGadfly is Free and Open Source
  4. Bokeh icon
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    Bokeh is a Python interactive visualization library that targets modern web browsers for presentation. Its goal is to provide elegant, concise construction of novel graphics in the style of D3.js, but also deliver this capability with high-performance interactivity over very...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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    ggvis is a data visualization package for R which lets you create rich interactive graphics that you can play with locally in Rstudio or in your browser, using a syntax similar in spirit to ggplot2.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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