Start

01/01/2013

End

14/12/2021

Status

Completed

RAWGraphs

Website's Project

Start

01/01/2013

End

14/12/2021

Status

Completed

RAWGraphs

Website's Project

RAWGraphs is an open source data visualization framework built with the goal of making the visual representation of complex data easy for everyone.
Primarily conceived as a tool for designers and vis geeks, RAWGraphs aims at providing a missing link between spreadsheet applications (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Apple Numbers, OpenRefine) and vector graphics editors (e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, Sketch). The project was born in DensityDesign Lab in 2013, and now is maintained by the lab in collaboration with Calibro.

  • Data inputs

    RAWGraphs works with delimiter-separated values (i.e. CSV and TSC files) as well as with copied-and-pasted texts from other applications (e.g. Microsoft Excel, TextWrangler, TextEdit, …), with API endpoints and SPAQL queries. Based on the SVG format, the visualizations can be easily edited with vector graphics applications for further refinements, or directly embedded into web pages.

  • Data security

    Knowing the need of working with sensitive information, the data uploaded to RAWGraphs 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!

Publications

Mauri, M., Elli, T., Caviglia, G., Uboldi, G., & Azzi, M. (2017). RAWGraphs: A Visualisation Platform to Create Open Outputs. Proceedings of the 12th Biannual Conference on Italian SIGCHI Chapter, 28:1--28:5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3125571.3125585

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