Sanremo Music Festival: adding colors to chrt

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The Sanremo Music Festival is a major mundane event in Italy since the 1950s. Every year, soon after the Christmas break is over, new singers and old chanteurs gather in Sanremo, for a week-long competition.

Going Retro

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The visual language of old data visualization always amazed me: being able to represent complex data with a few elements and colors, and yet making it readable, is an exciting challenge.

Imitating the best

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How can we create beautiful charts? Replicate the best!

Data can be local

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Most of the chart libraries expect the coder to declare the data for the entire chart. The paper A layered grammar of graphics states:

How should the code look like?

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The first chart library I used (almost 15 years ago) was jpgraph for PHP, then after too much customization of its code, I decided it was time to create my library. I did it with ActionScript and Flash, it was called Atomicharts, it was doing few things: line charts, area charts, and bar charts. I truly enjoyed the experience of putting together the library.

How should a chrt look like?

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At chrt we are always very excited 👯 when we create new charts 📊. We love neat and crisp 🤓 charts 📈.

The unfolding of chrt

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When I used Scratch with my daughter, I noticed how intuitive is thinking in blocks (and nested blocks), and I wondered why we were not building charts similarly with javascript. It was fun and it helped to ideate through one of the most natural process: addition.