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Datavisualization.ch Selected Tools. Timeline. Data visualisation DIY: our top tools | News. What data visualisation tools are out there on the web that are easy to use - and free? Here on the Datablog and Datastore we try to do as much as possible using the internet's powerful free options. That may sound a little disingenuous, in that we obviously have access to the Guardian's amazing Graphics and interactive teams for those pieces where we have a little more time - such as this map of public spending (created using Adobe Illustrator) or this Twitter riots interactive. But for our day-to-day work, we often use tools that anyone can - and create graphics that anyone else can too. So, what do we use? Google fusion tables This online database and mapping tool has become our default for producing quick and detailed maps, especially those where you need to zoom in.

You get all the high resolution of google maps but it can open a lot of data - 100mb of CSV, for instance. This excellent tutorial by Google's Kathryn Hurley is a great place to start. Tableau Public Google spreadsheet charts. IMPURE | Home. Fusion Tables (Beta) Bust your data out of its silo! Get more from data with Fusion Tables. Fusion Tables is an experimental data visualization web application to gather, visualize, and share data tables.

Visualize bigger table data online Filter and summarize across hundreds of thousands of rows. Then try a chart, map, network graph, or custom layout and embed or share it. Two tables are better than one! Merge two or three tables to generate a single visualization that includes both sets of data. Make a map in minutes Host data online - and stay in control Viewers located anywhere can produce charts or maps from it. Visualize bigger table data online Import your own data Upload data tables from spreadsheets or CSV files, even KML. Visualize it instantly See the data on a map or as a chart immediately. Publish your visualization on other web properties Now that you've got that nice map or chart of your data, you can embed it in a web page or blog post. Two tables are better than one! Make a map in minutes. MapBox.

22 free tools for data visualization and analysis. Review April 20, 2011 06:00 AM ET Computerworld - You may not think you've got much in common with an investigative journalist or an academic medical researcher. But if you're trying to extract useful information from an ever-increasing inflow of data, you'll likely find visualization useful -- whether it's to show patterns or trends with graphics instead of mountains of text, or to try to explain complex issues to a nontechnical audience. Want to see all the tools at once? For quick reference, check out our chart listing all the tools profiled here. There are many tools around to help turn data into graphics, but they can carry hefty price tags. The cost can make sense for professionals whose primary job is to find meaning in mountains of information, but you might not be able to justify such an expense if you or your users only need a graphics application from time to time, or if your budget for new tools is somewhat limited.

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Data sets, databases, statistics for free download and for sale. Get the Data: Data Q&A Forum. Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Data Search: finding useful datasets, worldwide. Statistics (GDP, unemployment, income, population, labour, education, trade, finance, prices,health,debt...) Accueil. Google Ngram Viewer. Datasets - Gephi:Wiki. Gephi sample datasets, in various format (GEXF, GDF, GML, NET, GraphML, DL, DOT). Feel free to add new datasets. Be sure you cite original authors. Supported graph formats are described here.

Note that Gephi can open these files without the need to be unzipped. Web and Internet [GEXF] EuroSiS web mapping study: Mapping interactions between Science in Society actors on the Web of 12 European countries. [GML] Internet: a symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of autonomous systems, reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. Social networks [GML] Les Miserables: coappearance weighted network of characters in the novel Les Miserables. [GEXF] Hypertext 2009 dynamic contact network: contact network during the Hypertext 2009 conference. [GML] Zachary's karate club: social network of friendships between 34 members of a karate club at a US university in the 1970s. [TGZ] Github open source developers. Biological networks [GEXF] C. SNAP: Network datasets: 476 million Twitter tweets. API Wiki / FrontPage.

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