I used to work at Medium on the product science team before this tool was created. I didn't work on it myself, although I can appreciate how well it works in practice. The simplicity-of-use of this tool, both as a data provider and as a visualization consumer, is incredible.<p>I can imagine some HN readers thinking they want more detailed graph control, but the few options + the defaults on this tool cover a surprising range of use cases. I think you have to try it on your own data to appreciate the subtle decisions that went into the design.
It's beautiful. Really well done in terms of UI/UX. I did find a minor bug however, in the notes section newlines are completely discarded upon refreshing or sharing the link.<p>Anyways I thought I'd add a CSV file I had generated with Ebola outbreak data from the WHO where you can see a decline in the rate of infection and mortality of the virus.<p><a href="http://www.charted.co/?%7B%22dataUrl%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fmontanaflynn%2Febola-outbreak-data%2Fmaster%2Febola-outbreak-data.csv%22%2C%22charts%22%3A%5B%7B%22title%22%3A%22Ebola%20Outbreak%22%2C%22note%22%3A%22Ebola%20outbreak%20data%20from%20the%20WHO%20compiled%20by%20Montana%20Flynn%20and%20available%20in%20multiple%20formats%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fmontanaflynn%2Febola-outbreak-data%2F%22%7D%5D%7D" rel="nofollow">http://www.charted.co/?%7B%22dataUrl%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fr...</a>
<a href="http://www.datacopia.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.datacopia.com/</a> does something similar - but goes a fair bit further - actually trying to work out what's in your data and the best way to display it.
I would hesitate to say "A new way to share data". I would describe it as "reducing the barrier to entry for data visualization to copy and paste".<p>I like it. Didn't work on the first time I tried, but thats fine, it is kind of a weird data set (some categorical data).