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Wrapping your brain around data online can be challenging, especially when dealing with huge volumes of information. And trying to find related content can also be difficult, depending on what data you’re looking for. But data visualizations can make all of that much easier, allowing you to see the concepts that you’re learning about in a more interesting, and often more useful manner. Below are 50 of the best data visualizations and tools for creating your own visualizations out there, covering everything from Digg activity to network connectivity to what’s currently happening on Twitter.
50 Great Examples of Data Visualization | Webdesigner Depot
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Daniel Becker has published his 2009 diploma thesis RANDOM WALK at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Germany. What does randomness look like? RANDOM WALK asks this question and presents experiments in mathematics and physics, showing the mysterious interaction of chaos and order in randomness.
I had the distinct pleasure and honor of taking the Information Visualization class this semester at the University of Michigan’s School of Information (where I’m completing a Masters of Info, specializing in HCI ). For the class each project team created a visualization to help aid user comprehension of a large data set. The very talented students in the class showcased their impressive final projects last week…and here they are (in the order they were presented), projects so extraordinary they’ll make you cry for mercy. Where the Money Goes This political visualization, according to its website, “makes it easier to visualize the contributions that political action committees (PACs) make to your members of Congress, and to each other.
Information visualization projects so awesome they’ll turn your
Exhibit lets you easily create web pages with advanced text search and filtering functionalities, with interactive maps, timelines, and other visualizations like these:
SIMILE Widgets | Exhibit
Ubigraph: Free dynamic graph visualization software
UbiGraph is a tool for visualizing dynamic graphs. The basic version is free, and talks to Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, C, C++, C#, Haskell, and OCaml. Download Version alpha-0.2.4 Version alpha-0.2.4 is distributed as two separate components.
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Exhibit : "enables you to create html pages with dynamic exhibits of data collections without resorting to complex database and server-side technologies. The collections can be searched and browsed using faceted browsing. Assorted views are provided including Timelines, tiles, maps, and more...If you just want to show a few hundred records of data on maps, timelines, scatter plots, interactive tables, etc., why bother learning SQL, ASP, PHP, CGI, or whatever when you can just use Exhibit?" (Free, web-based) Flare : "Flare is an ActionScript library for creating visualizations that run in the Adobe Flash Player. From basic charts and graphs to complex interactive graphics, the toolkit supports data management, visual encoding, animation, and interaction techniques."Data visualization and infographics resources for design inspira
Infographics or Information graphics is mode of visual communication of information using graphics. Like maps, technical writing, flowcharts, scientific visualization , process visualization etc. They can be very good resources of inspiration for various design jobs as they solve communication problems using easy to understand graphics which can be small icons, pictograms or pictures. Visualizing Fitt's law - Particle Tree Published in 1954, Fitts’s Law is an effective method of modeling the relationship of a very specific, yet common situation in interface design. 21 ways to visualize and explore your email inbox - Flowingdata This article gives information on visualizing your email inbox using various visualization tools.
Prefuse is a set of software tools for creating rich interactive data visualizations. The original prefuse toolkit provides a visualization framework for the Java programming language. The prefuse flare toolkit provides visualization and animation tools for ActionScript and the Adobe Flash Player. NOTE: Prefuse development has been opened up to the community and the source has moved from SourceForge to a new home on GitHub . Both Prefuse and Flare are now available on GitHub. Prefuse supports a rich set of features for data modeling, visualization, and interaction.
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(Note: I am at a visual analysis conference sponsored by the National Visualization And Analytics Center so the last of the Top 5 Methods list will have to wait a day or two. In the meantime, I have found something else that is pretty cool...) John Stasko and the computer scientists at the Information Interfaces Lab at Georgia Tech may not have found the Holy Grail of visual analysis but they have come pretty darn close with their Jigsaw product .
Amazing Data Visualization Tool From The Geniuses At GA Tech (Ji
Introducing the Lifestreaming Visualization Stylings of Nicholas
Today I came across the Felton Report. What is this report? Well I see a beautiful visual Lifestream. It was created by one Nicholas Felton who is a graphic designer based in New York City. He is also the co-creator of the data-tracking website Daytum.com .Visualize your data and add advanced charts to your desktop apps with one control. ComponentOne Chart™ for WPF supports all popular 2D chart types, flexible data binding, fast and powerful rendering, rich styling of elements plus many more advanced features. Take your LOB and data visualization apps to the next level today!
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Charts And Graphs: Modern Solutions | Developer's Toolbox |
2 The Dojo Charting Engine 3 can generate graphs and charts with few JavaScript snippets 4 . Many server-based solutions are quite versatile, so you can use them to create a variety of charts and graphs in minutes. However, to use these tools you need to know where to find them. This article presents an overview of tools, applications and techniques for visualizing data in charts and graphs .Charts and graphs help the user to visualize data in a more meaningful way than rows of text statistics. They are extensively used in reporting applications, for displaying earnings, website traffic etc – here we take a look at some pre-made scripts and frameworks available to the web designer or web application developer … amCharts – Pie and donut charts, line and area charts, column and bar charts, scatter and bubble charts and an interactive map tool are all free for download