{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/jsol-javascript-open-source-library-for-1","title":"JSOL: JavaScript Open-source Library for Grammar of Graphics","arxiv_id":"2201.04205","date":"2022-01-11","proceeding":null,"authors":["Waleed A. Yousef","Hisham E. Mohammed","Andrew A. Naguib","Rafat S. Eid","Sherif E. Emabrak","Ahmed F. Hamed","Yusuf M. Khalifa","Shrouk T. AbdElrheem","Eman A. Awad","Sara G. Gaafar","Alaa M. Mamdoh","Nada A. Shawky"],"abstract":"In this paper, we introduce the JavaScript Open-source Library (\\libname), a high-level grammar for representing data in visualization graphs and plots. \\libname~perspective on the grammar of graphics is unique; it provides state-of-art rules for encoding visual primitives that can be used to generate a known scene or to invent a new one. \\libname~has ton rules developed specifically for data-munging, mapping, and visualization through many layers, such as algebra, scales, and geometries. Additionally, it has a compiler that incorporates and combines all rules specified by a user and put them in a flow to validate it as a visualization grammar and check its requisites. Users can customize scenes through a pipeline that either puts customized rules or comes with new ones. We evaluated \\libname~on a multitude of plots to check rules specification of customizing a specific plot. Although the project is still under development and many enhancements are under construction, this paper describes the first developed version of \\libname, circa 2016, where an open-source version of it is available. One immediate practical deployment for JSOl is to be integrated with the open-source version of the Data Visualization Platform (DVP) \\citep{Yousef2019DVP-arxiv}","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04205v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.04205v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"jsol-javascript-open-source-library-for-1","repo_url":"https://github.com/hci-lab/JSOL","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}