Chartes & data
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
How to Make Bubble Charts
A bubble chart can also just be straight up proportionally sized bubbles, but here we're going to cover how to create the variety that is like a scatterplot with a third, bubbly dimension. The advantage of this chart type is that it lets you compare three variables at once. One is on the x-axis, one is on the y-axis, and the third is represented by area size of bubbles. Have a look at the final chart to see what we're making. Step 0.
Are you looking to get into data visualization, but don't quite know where to begin? With all of the available tools to help you visualize data, it can be confusing where to start. The good news is, well, that there are a lot of (free) available tools out there to help you get started.
What Visualization Tool/Software Should You Use? – Getting Started
As we've seen, javascript is growing into a viable solution for visualization on the Web. John Resig ported Processing to javascript about a year ago and we saw some projects in javascript to show off speed in Google Chrome. Most recently, Nicolas Garcia Belmonte released version 1.1 of his InfoVis Toolkit , which provides a basic set of tools for creating interactive visualizations on the Web. Some of the features:
Javascript InfoVis Toolkit – New Version Released
One of the most frequent questions I get is, " What software do you use to visualize data?"