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SandDance

Visually explore, understand, and present your data.

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By using easy-to-understand views, SandDance helps you find insights about your data, which in turn help you tell stories supported by data, build cases based on evidence, test hypotheses, dig deeper into surface explanations, support decisions for purchases, or relate data into a wider, real world context.

SandDance uses unit visualizations, which apply a one-to-one mapping between rows in your database and marks on the screen.
Smooth animated transitions between views help you to maintain context as you interact with your data.

 This new version of SandDance has been rebuilt from scratch with the goal of being modular, extensible, and embeddable into your custom applications. We are now on GitHub so that we are open and driven by the community through contributions, feature requests, and discussion.

SandDance was created by the Microsoft Research VIDA Group which explores novel technologies for visualization and immersive data analytics.

 Where can I use SandDance?
 Try it now on the web
 Microsoft apps:
   Power BI - see additional info
   Azure Data Studio
   VSCode extension
 3rd Party apps:
   Observable
   HASH Core IDE - see 'Step Explorer' documentation
 In your own JavaScript apps - see below

 Component architecture

SandDance is an offering of several JavaScript components:

 sanddance - the core SandDance visualization canvas.
 sanddance-specs - Vega specifications for unit visualizations.
 sanddance-react - the core SandDance visualization canvas for use in React based applications.
 sanddance-explorer - the core SandDance visualization canvas with UI to enable data exploration, for use in React based applications.
 sanddance-embed - the easiest way to embed SandDance Explorer in your applications, via an  tag.

 Publications

 2018 - Atom: A Grammar for Unit Visualizations
   Deokgun Park, Steven Drucker, Roland Fernandez, Niklas Elmqvist
   IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics | December 2018, Vol 24(12): pp. 3032-3043
 2015 - A Unifying Framework for Animated and Interactive Unit Visualizations
   Steven Drucker, Roland Fernandez 
   MSR-TR-2015-65 | August 2015

 Articles & videos

 SandDance project @ Microsoft Research
 Microsoft Research webinar / Data Visualization: Bridging the Gap Between Users and Information.
 SQL Server Blog / The August release of Azure Data Studio is now available
 Open Source Blog / What’s new in SandDance 3
 Channel 9 - Data Exposed / Introducing SandDance: Data Visualization in Azure Data Studio
 Channel 9 - Data Exposed / What is SandDance?
 Hacker News / Microsoft open sources SandDance, a visual data exploration tool
 analyticsindiamag.com / Visualizations With SandDance Using Visual Studio Code
 codeburst.io / Exploring Titanic Dataset using Microsoft’s Sandance
 mathkuro.com / VS Codeのイケメンすぎる分析＆可視化ツールSand Danceの使い方
 mathkuro.com / 【SandDanceグラフサンプル】用途に合わせて選択しましょう◎
 medium.com - @sefao