40 Essential Tools and Resources to Visualize Data | FlowingData. One of the most frequent questions I get is, "What software do you use to visualize data? " A lot of people are excited to play with their data, but don't know how to go about doing it or even start. Here are the tools I use or have used and resources that I own or found helpful for data visualization – starting with organizing the data, to graphs and charts, and lastly, animation and interaction. Organizing the Data by sleepy sparrow Data are hardly ever in the format that you need them to be in.
PHP was the first scripting language I learned that was well-suited for the Web, so I'm pretty comfortable with it. Python Most computer science types - at least the ones I've worked with - scoff at PHP and opt for Python mostly because Python code is often better structured (as a requirement) and has cooler server-side functions. MySQL When I have a lot of data - like on the magnitude of the tends to hundreds of thousands - I use PHP or Python to stick it in a MySQL database.
Ah, good old R. Many Eyes.
Visual. Winner of the Personal Visualization Project is… | FlowingData. Like what you see here? Subscribe to the feed to stay updated on what's new in data visualization. Last week was the end of our FlowingData personal visualization project. I asked readers to collect data about themselves or their surroundings and then visualize it some way. Thank you to everyone who participated. It put a smile on my face every time I got an email with "summer project" in the subject line :).
The Winner is... While I enjoyed all the entries (and I hope you all enjoyed making them), there can only be one winner. Here are Tim's personal data visualization projects along with entries from Brian, John, Kevin C, Kevin M, Lisa, Said, Stacey and Joel, and Tony. I Drink, Therefore I Am I originally thought this was all alcoholic beverages. This one focuses on Tim's Coke consumption. A Month of Email Spam How about a look at a month of email spam?
Ouch, My Body Hurts This is actually an animated aches and pains chart implemented in Processing. An Apple a Day... Chairs in the Kitchen. Wine Flavor Visualization. Chris Harrison's Visualization Projects. 16 Awesome Data Visualization Tools. From navigating the Web in entirely new ways to seeing where in the world twitters are coming from, data visualization tools are changing the way we view content.
We found the following 16 apps both visually stunning and delightfully useful. Visualize Your Network with Fidg’tFidg’t is a desktop application that aims to let you visualize your network and its predisposition for different types of things like music and photos. Currently, the service has integrated with Flickr and last.fm, so for example, Fidg’t might show you if your network is attracted or repelled by Coldplay, or if it has a predisposition to taking photos of their weekend partying.
As the service expands to support other networks (they suggest integrations with Facebook, digg, del.icio.us, and several others are in the works), this one could become very interesting. BigSpy places stories at the top of the screen as they are dugg. Visualize Flickr Tags Over TimeTaglines from Yahoo!