The Visualizing Player
Visualizing.org launched their brand new Visualizing Player, a terrific tool for embedding interactive and static data visualizations. Read more
Working with Data in Protovis
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
The Google Books Ngram Viewer
The Google Books Ngram Viewer shows the power of visualization: instead of offering a huge but abstract data set, Google created a simple visualization tool that shows the data and makes it easily queryable. Read more
Polymaps
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
Swivel Review – A Guest Post on Information Aesthetics
Together with Kim Rees from Periscopic I have reviewed the social data visualization application Swivel. Swivel is a simple to use web application that lets you visualize public or private data sets and collaborate openly or in closed user groups. Read more
Visualize Data in HTML5 with HumbleFinance
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
Google Public Data Explorer
On its trail to organize the world’s information, Google has just added a new experimental product to their Lab. The Public Data Explorer makes “large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate”. It is designed to help people comprehend data and statistics through rich visualizations. Read more
Publish Your Visualized Data With Tableau Public
Tableau Software today launched a new product that brings public data to life on the web. Tableau Public lets anyone who posts content to the web easily create interactive visualizations and publish them online. How it works Tableau Public is a freely available desktop application and can be downloaded from the Tableau.com website. The data [...] Read more
Stunning Examples of Data Visualization in Google Earth
The Google Earth blog recently posted some examples of how well Google Earth can be used as a scientific visualization platform. The examples are posted by Thijs Damsma from the OpenEarth Initiative. Read more
Highcharts, Impressive Javascript Library
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
Pivot: An Experiment from Microsoft to Browse Data
From the Microsoft Live Labs comes a new and ambitious experiment called Pivot. It allows a user to browse huge lists of items in a powerful, informative and fun way. Read more
Digging for Images with Google Image Swirl
Google just released a new Google Labs project called Image Swirl. It is a visual search engine for images built to explore search queries from different visual perspectives. Read more
Tools
To successfully visualize your ideas you need adequate tools. Pencil and paper for basic ideas. Pixel or Vector graphics for more precision. Scripting languages for interactive visualizations. Serverside data processing for dynamic or real-time visualizations. To give you an overview over the best tools available we introduce libraries, applications, web services and so on.
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