sparklines
< php
< ajax
< web2.0
< tech
< kliger
As data visualization often needs to reach a broad audience the browser is becoming the number one tool to publish and share visualizations. A lot of visualizations require user-interaction to unleash their full potential, thus interactive applets that run directly in the browser are a a great way to analyze the data at hand. Beside the usual suspects like Flash , Silverlight and Processing , JavaScript is quickly gaining ground in the field of interactive visualization embedded in websites.
ExTraVis - EXecution TRAce VISualizer This is the subpage for ExTraVis (click here to return to main page), a beta-stage, OpenGL-based software visualization tool that enables users to interactively explore and analyze dynamic program information, i.e., program execution traces. ExTraVis is part of the Reconstructor toolset. The Reconstructor project aims at raising the state of the art in software architecture reconstruction; more information on Reconstructor can be found here . ExTraVis is introduced as part of the following paper:
Sparklines , as defined by Tufte , are intense, simple, word-sized graphics. Kind of like this: . I seemed to stumble across them at just the right time, as I have regression tests I am adding to on a daily basis. The result is a flood of information. I believe sparklines may be the answer to my information avalanche.