[danso]

Let me be clear...for my own personal projects and works, D3 is the way to go. It makes the most sense for the crazy ideas I have, and from my limited perspective, just seems to be the best API among all viz libraries.

But in the domain of common chart type that areperfectly serviceable, clear, and customizable...there's not much choice. Google Charts seems like an easy win because hey, it's Google. It'll definitely be around for at least a few years, as it seems to be the dogfood tool for Fusion tables and other Google products.

But other than that, there's not much else that seems to be widely adopted. Raphael is more of a visualization library and seems to be going by the wayside after D3. Highcharts, in this context, seems to be an all-out winner compared to Google Charts, and against most of the D3-chart-wrappers that I've seen so far (Rickshaw, nvd3, etc).

[paddy_m]

Have you looked at bokeh? http://bokeh.pydata.org/plot_gallery/burtin_example.html

Note: I'm a core dev on bokeh.

[danso]

I've heard of it but thought it was for the domain of python development...which is not a downside, per se, but doesn't always fit the project requirements of "here's some data, now throw some javascript on a page and show that data"