RAW is an open web tool to create custom vector-based visualizations on top of the amazing d3.js library by Mike Bostock. It has been developed by DensityDesign Research Lab (Politecnico di Milano) and Calibro, and sustained through a corporate stewardship by ContactLab.
Primarily conceived as a tool for designers and vis geeks, RAW aims at providing a missing link between spreadsheet applications (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Apple Numbers, Google Docs, OpenRefine, …) and vector graphics editors (e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, …).
RAW works with tabular data (e.g. spreadhseets and comma-separated values) as well as with copied-and-pasted texts from other applications (e.g. Microsoft Excel, TextWrangler, TextEdit, …). Based on the SVG format, visualizations can be easily edited with vector graphics applications for further refinements, or directly embedded into web pages.
Knowing the need of working with sensitive information, the data uploaded to RAW is processed only by the web browser: no server-side operations or storages are performed and no one will see, touch or copy your data!
RAW is also highly customizable and extensible, accepting new custom layouts defined by users. For more information about how to add or edit layouts, see the Developer Guide.
- App page: app.rawgraphs.io
- Project official page: rawgraphs.io
- Documentation: github.com/densitydesign/raw/wiki
- Google group: groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/densitydesign-raw
The easiest way to use RAW is by accessing the most updated version on the official app page. However, RAW can also run locally on your machine: see the installation instructions below to know how.
If you want to run your instance of RAW locally on your machine, be sure you have the following requirements installed.
Clone RAW from the command line:
$ git clone https://github.com/densitydesign/raw.gitbrowse to RAW root folder:
$ cd rawinstall client-side dependencies:
$ bower installadd analytics script:
$ cp js/analytics.sample.js js/analytics.jsopen the file js/analytics.js and add your analytics code (if any), otherwise leave the file as is.
You can now run RAW from your local web server. For example, you can run Python's built-in server:
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 4000or for Python 3+
$ python -m http.server 4000Once this is running, go to http://localhost:4000/.
Troubles with the installation? Maybe a look at the issues page can solve your problem, otherwise join the Google group.
Documentation and FAQs about how to use RAW can be found on the wiki.
Information about the available charts can be found here. Adding new charts is very easy in RAW, see how here!
If you have any suggestion or request about new layouts to include, please let us know! If you have already created new charts and you would like to see them included into Raw, please send us a pull request.
RAW has been developed using a lot of cool stuff found out there:
RAW is maintained by DensityDesign Research Lab and Calibro.
If you want to know more about RAW, how it works and future developments, please visit the official website. For any specific request or comment we suggest you to use Github or the Google group. If none of these worked for you, you can write us at hello@rawgraphs.io.
Want to contribute to RAW's development? You are more than welcome! Start by forking the repository (the "Fork" button at the top-right corner of this page) and follow the instructions above to clone it and install dependencies. Then you can use Github's issues and pull requests to discuss and share your work. You will need to sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) before making a submission. We adopted CLA to be sure that the project will remain open source. For more information, write us: hello@rawgraphs.io.
If you have found RAWGraphs useful in your research, or if you want to reference it in your work, please consider to cite the paper we presented at CHItaly 2017.
you can read the full article in Green Open Access at the following link:
Cite RAWGraphs:
Mauri, M., Elli, T., Caviglia, G., Uboldi, G., & Azzi, M. (2017). RAWGraphs: A Visualisation Platform to Create Open Outputs. In Proceedings of the 12th Biannual Conference on Italian SIGCHI Chapter (p. 28:1–28:5). New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3125571.3125585
Bibtex:
@inproceedings{Mauri:2017:RVP:3125571.3125585,
author = {Mauri, Michele and Elli, Tommaso and Caviglia, Giorgio and Uboldi, Giorgio and Azzi, Matteo},
title = {RAWGraphs: A Visualisation Platform to Create Open Outputs},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th Biannual Conference on Italian SIGCHI Chapter},
series = {CHItaly '17},
year = {2017},
isbn = {978-1-4503-5237-6},
location = {Cagliari, Italy},
pages = {28:1--28:5},
articleno = {28},
numpages = {5},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3125571.3125585},
doi = {10.1145/3125571.3125585},
acmid = {3125585},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {Visualization tools, data visualization, open output, visual interface},
}
RAW has been originally developed by:
- Giorgio Caviglia giorgio.caviglia@gmail.com
- Michele Mauri mikimauri@gmail.com
- Giorgio Uboldi giorgio@calib.ro
- Matteo Azzi matteo@calib.ro
RAW is provided under the Apache License 2.0:
Copyright (c), 2013-2017 DensityDesign Lab, Giorgio Caviglia, Michele Mauri, Giorgio Uboldi, Matteo Azzi
<info@densitydesign.org>
<giorgio.caviglia@gmail.com>
<mikimauri@gmail.com>
<giorgio@calib.ro>
<matteo@calib.ro>
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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