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I really wanted to like this, I've tried it several times but always end up with either having to pre-process my data to fit whatever vis I'm trying to create or just simply not being able to do it.

I recommend https://observablehq.com, once you get a hang of it and have a couple of templates setup for your workflows it's similar effort of this and you have a lot more flexibility.

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I think this is by design. The idea is you bring your data in the expected format (using spreadsheets, or pivot tables, or observable, or pandas), and RAWGraphs will make one of a few common modern visualisations. The sort of stuff you would hope Excel/etc. will have out of the box someday.

Observable is definitely more of a power house :) Out of curiosity, do you have any templates you'd be willing to share?

Not really :) But it's mostly variants of stuff you can find on https://observablehq.com/@d3/gallery

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