[charts][RFC] Heat map charts

[alexfauquette]

Benchmarks

• Recharts (not supported)
• Nivo
• Highcharts
• Echarts

Subtask

• [charts] Support color scale #12378 (Required to map Heat map data to their color)
• [charts] Support color scale legend #12379 (Followup of the previous one)

MUI X Heat map

https://mui.com/x/react-charts/heat-map/

[sirajalam049]

Is it under development?

[alexfauquette]

Is it under development?

@sirajalam049 Not yet. We are mostly refining the current components to have great stable, It's in the backlog to start in two month in theory.

Do you have some specific feature you would like to see in it, or do you have a particular use-case? This information would be useful when we will start

[TheOneTheOnlyJJ]

Is it under development?

@sirajalam049 Not yet. We are mostly refining the current components to have great stable, It's in the backlog to start in two month in theory.

Do you have some specific feature you would like to see in it, or do you have a particular use-case? This information would be useful when we will start

A specific use-case that I would use this for is showing events/activities on a timeline in a minimal way. Having out-of-the-box support for years/months/weeks would be greatly appreciated.
Here are a few examples of exactly what I mean:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/K9E8Y.jpg
https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1051/1*bW0HQdSCp4gUYXNlnHBAxA.png
Notice the grid indenting in concordance with the weekdays on the first image attached, and then the month delimiter lines on the second.
Also, the rotated side label would allow the title above (or below) the heatmap to describe the data presented in what I see as a smoother way than having to mention the year in each title, especially when stacking data for multiple years in a column of heatmaps.

[AliGangeh]

I've been building a user interface for designing and visualizing the behaviors in a rocket engine. a lot of the data would be captured very well in a heatmap. I'm deciding on which framework to use right now. do you have any estimate on when development would begin/how long it would take?

I really want to use material UI because it looks so clean but I also think that heatmaps are a need for my project.

[alexfauquette]

@AliGangeh For now, there are some plan to start working on it in Feb. As you know planning in software developement is not an exact science, but it's in the batch of next components

[TheOneTheOnlyJJ]

I would like to request the possibility of displaying SVGs (including Material Icons) in individual data points, along with the data point colour.
This idea came up to me while thinking about displaying weather data on such a heat map, and how, along with colours representing the temperature, it would be handy to display SVGs of the weather in each individual data point (that could represent hour intervals or days) such as these:
https://cdn.dribbble.com/users/11063/screenshots/1331100/attachments/187836/high-res_robin-kylander.png?resize=800x600&vertical=center
This would also imply having the ability to control the size of the data points, as these SVGs would require the data point size to be bigger than that of most common heat map representations. Here, again, I'm thinking of representing a week's worth of weather data as a chonky single line, 7 column heat map.

[TheOneTheOnlyJJ]

I'm back again. Just want to leave this benchmark example here:
https://www.react-google-charts.com/examples/calendar

[mikearney]

+1 upvote for heatmaps next!

[MikeJBradshaw]

+1 upvote

[augustomatavelli]

Hello everyone! One idea is to design the background layout of the heat map if it's possible. In my case, I'm working on a project where we need to develop a geographic heat map.

[alexfauquette]

If some of you are interested, the initial PR for the heatmap is kind of ready. Feel free to have a look at the preview, and report any missing point

https://deploy-preview-13209--material-ui-x.netlify.app/x/react-charts/heatmap/

[sascha-hack]

Hi @alexfauquette ,

thats great! I am more then happy to test it and provide feedback. How do I get those first preview versions?

First time for me.

[vbdt]

i'd love to test it as well.

[alexfauquette]

You can have a look at the preview: https://deploy-preview-13209--material-ui-x.netlify.app/x/react-charts/heatmap/

Seems preview of the pro is not generated by circle CI. WIll update that