# PMSI-AlignAlytics/dimple

An object-oriented API for business analytics

Repository: https://github.com/PMSI-AlignAlytics/dimple
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dimple
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2023-06-30T08:46:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4852, "days_push": 1160, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2720, forks 541 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:15.544579+00:00)

## What it is
Dimple is an object-oriented JavaScript API built on top of d3.js for creating flexible axis-based charts. It is designed to let analysts without deep JavaScript expertise build standard business analytics visualizations while still exposing core d3 objects for advanced customization.

## Use cases
- create bar charts from business data
- build line charts for time series analysis
- make pie and donut charts for reports
- generate axis-based charts without writing raw d3 code
- add interactive charts to dashboards
- visualize csv data in the browser

## When to choose
- you need standard business charts (bar, line, pie) with minimal JavaScript knowledge
- you want a simpler API over d3.js for analysts
- you need charts that can be extended with raw d3 when requirements grow
- you are building browser-based analytics dashboards

## When to avoid
- you need cutting-edge chart types or modern framework integrations (the project has seen little recent activity)
- you require full control and are comfortable with d3.js directly
- you need server-side or non-browser rendering
- you need a license with clear terms (the repository has no standard license assertion)

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: data-visualization, charts
- domain: data-visualization, analytics
- platform: browser
- tags: d3js, charting, business-analytics, object-oriented-api, javascript-library, business-intelligence, javascript

## Member repositories
- PMSI-AlignAlytics/dimple (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:15.544579+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:15:13.150291+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/PMSI-AlignAlytics/dimple (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:15.544579+00:00, sha 3815e89b6d42)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.