Hypatia

Hypatia is a new data visualization API written in Perl. It takes advantage of several Modern Perl features, including Moose and Dist::Zilla (in fact, as of the time of this writing, the only code committed is for a Dist::Zilla build).

For reporting and analysis of data, it's often useful to have charts and graphs of various kinds: line graphs, bar charts, histograms, etc. Of course, CPAN has modules for data visualization--in fact, there are quite a few of them, each with different features and wildly different syntaxes. The aim of Hypatia is to provide a layer between DBI and these data visualization modules, so that one can get a basic, "no-frills" chart with as little knowledge of the syntax of the particular data visualization package as possible.

So, for example, to get a line graph in Chart::Clicker, one could do this:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chart::Clicker;
use Hypatia::Chart::Clicker::Line;

my $hypatia=Hypatia::Chart::Clicker::Line->new({
  dbi=>{
    dsn=>"dbi:MySQL:dbname=database;host=localhost",
    username=>"jdoe",
    password=>"sooperseekrit",
    query=>"select DATE(time_of_sale) as date,sum(revenue) as daily_revenue
    from widget_sales
    group by DATE(time_of_sale)"
    },
  columns=>{"x"=>"date","y"=>"daily_revenue"},
  output=>"line_graph.png"
});

my $cc=$hypatia->chart; #This is a Chart::Clicker object that you can do stuff with.

#Or you can just write it to the specified output file for a basic, functional line graph.

$hypatia->write;

At the moment there is only limited support for part of Chart::Clicker, but this will expand to include support for:

• Chart::Clicker
• GraphViz2
• R (via Statistics::R).
• GD::Graph (including 3D support with GD::Graph3D).
• And many more!