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    microsoft/SandDance

    Visually explore, understand, and present your data.

    analytics
    data-visualization
    deck-gl
    msr-vida
    powerbi
    vega
    TypeScript
    MIT
    7.2K stars
    575 forks
    7.2K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 1, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    The project lists 23 contributors on GitHub.

    Gained 50% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Enables interactive visual exploration and presentation of data using unit visualizations with smooth animated transitions.
    • Offers modular, extensible, and embeddable components for seamless integration into custom JavaScript and React applications.
    • Use for creating data-driven stories and evidence-based presentations to support decision-making processes.
    • Use for embedding advanced visual data exploration tools within Power BI, Azure Data Studio, or VSCode extensions.
    • Use for developers building custom web apps requiring rich, animated, and interactive data visualizations with WebGL2 support.

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

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    • README: present
    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    Visually explore, understand, and present your data.

    By using easy-to-understand views, SandDance helps you find insights about your data, which in turn help you tell stories supported by data, build cases based on evidence, test hypotheses, dig deeper into surface explanations, support decisions for purchases, or relate data into a wider, real world context.

    SandDance uses unit visualizations, which apply a one-to-one mapping between rows in your database and marks on the screen. Smooth animated transitions between views help you to maintain context as you interact with your data.

    This new version of SandDance has been rebuilt from scratch with the goal of being modular, extensible, and embeddable into your custom applications. We are now on GitHub so that we are open and driven by the community through contributions, feature requests, and discussion.

    SandDance was created by the Microsoft Research VIDA Group which explores novel technologies for visualization and immersive data analytics.

    Excerpt from the microsoft/SandDance README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    575+2

    Open issues

    97-9

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