When I meet with people and talk about our work, I get asked a lot what technology we use to create interactive and dynamic data visualizations. To help you get started, we have put together a selection of the tools we use the most and that we enjoy working with. Read more
Over the last few months we've been kept busy with designing visualizations for the project “Ville Vivante”. In this post I want to show you our attempt to reveal the vividness of a city with a bunch of numbers and to bring a dataset to life. Read more
I just left the Stamen studio where I had a brief chat with founder and CEO Eric Rodenbeck. He enthusiastically showed me their newest work: maps.stamen.com. Read more
Shan Carter's latest interactive for The New York Times offers four ways to slice Obama's 2013 federal budget proposal. Read more
Protovis is an open-source visualization library by the Stanford Visualization Group and has become one of the preferred tools in our arsenal. If you want to get started with the popular toolkit too, Jerome Cukier has a comprehensive tutorial about how to work with data in Protovis. Read more
Polymaps is a free, open-source JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps. It is the result of a collaboration between Stamen Design and SimpleGeo. Read more
Humble software development released a new visualization library called HumbleFinance. It is inspired by the Domestic Trends visualization of Google Finance, but uses pure JavaScript instead of Flash to display the data. Read more
Torstein Hønsi from Vevstein Web has created a really impressive Javascript charting library. Highcharts allows a developer to easily include interactive charts in websites or webapplications. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie and scatter chart types. Read more
Every time that you login into your local Unix-like machine or a remote hosting server through a FTP client to upload a file or use SSH to get your stuff done, you’re leaving behind a trail of evidence showing your online behaviour. This visualization tool unveils and visualizes this hidden data for you. Read more
I recently stumbled upond a Visualization Framework that seems to be around for quite some time now: InfiView. A video introduction has opened my eyes for it and I thought I share it with our readers. Read more
Cartagen (http://cartagen.org) is a vector-based, client-side framework for rendering maps in native HTML 5. Written in JavaScript, it uses the new Canvas element to load mapping data from various sources, including OpenStreetMap. Read more
Chroma Hash is a jQuery plugin that improves usability of password input by adding a subtle color code for password the user entered. The color code is non-reversible and simply gives you an indication about the accordance of the two entred strings. Read more
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