Getting WeBIPP

WeBIPP includes an integrated tutorial that goes over the basics. Currently only Firefox is supported, though support for other browsers will be added soon.

Latest Stable (version 0.11.0)

Development Build (version 0.11.1)

You may also wish to download the Examples (the zip contains all the files), which has some example data in the right JSON format, along with the WeBIPP saves for several example graphics (these can be loaded into WeBIPP to see the graphic).

WeBIPP is still in early alpha, if you encounter a bug please report it, ideally with the console log to go with the bug (you can access the console for Firefox with the keyboard shortcut ctrl+shift+k).

Links

Raw Data used to produce the JSON files in the examples.

A0 Poster "Interactive Prototyping of Statistical Graphics withWeBIPP" - gives a light introduction to WeBIPP.

Poster Supplement provides more information, including a brief tutorial on using R with WeBIPP

Download wbipR, in zip or tar.gz (instructions on use in Poster Supplement).

Last Updated 2015-02-18

What is WeBIPP?

WeBIPP is a web-based interactive tool for building statistical graphics from scratch without having to write code. Conceptually, this is similar to the idea proposed by Bret Victor in early 2013, with Lyra sharing many similarities to this idea.

WeBIPP, however, was developed independently and thus has a crucial difference in fundamental philosophy - WeBIPP does not shy away from code. Rather than focusing solely on the GUI-side of things, WeBIPP is a bridging solution, trying to take the best of both using GUIs, and writing code. WeBIPP is not only a tool for interactively producing graphics, it is a tool for interactively writing code. This has many advantages, including:

Refer to the Poster and Poster Supplements for more details.

Tutorials