From my weekend of hacking for Sunlight Lab's Great American Hackathon I built a plugin for jQuery that allows you to take any data source, any graphing library, and output the data using one jQuery.graph() function. A great use case for this plugin is for mashups with multiple data sources and the need for many ways to graph that data. The catch is, the only supported data source is the EPI API and the only supported graphing library is Flot :). To move forward on this project we'll need a lot more people to write data and graph adapters for the jQuery.graph() function to use. I have no immediate need myself to write adapters but will be using the jQuery.graph() framework for future projects. I'm crossing my fingers you'll consider using it too so every time we need to use a new graphing library we don't have to repeat the legwork of forming our data into each library's own picky way of accepting data. Less Data Manipulation! More Beer!
