Graphite: A Library for Data Visualization

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Graphite is a Racket library that reads CSVs into tidy data frames and produces scatter, line and bar plots with aesthetic mappings, additive renderers and facets; examples include Gapminder, GSS 2016 and Billboard 2000. It claims much less code — 41 lines vs 18 lines — supports pivot_longer to tidy wide week columns, and applies a log transform to fix a Kuwait GDP scale bug. The library integrates with a Sawzle data-manipulation pipeline and generates the plotted images directly.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:40Create a Plot with Graphite
3. 1:41Aesthetic Mapping
4. 6:28What Is Tidy Data
5. 7:55Create Operator
6. 8:52Extrapolations

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