Data Visualization. Definition: Tools that help users discern patterns in data--dynamic graphs, charts, maps, plots, etc. Tools: Chartle: Create simple interactive charts. (Web-based, free)ColorBrewer: Interactive tool for selecting most appropriate colors for maps and other visualizations (Web-based, free)Dundas: produces digital dashboard visualizations (Web-based, commercial) 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.
Resources: See also: Infographics & Data Visualizations - Visual.ly. Visualizing.org | Data Visualizations, Challenges, Community. Data Visualization and Infographics Examples and Resources. Things wordy, geeky, and webby Since taking a class that discussed Edward Tufte‘s work, I’ve been fascinated by turning information into visual data.
His site contains many examples that you could easily spend hours on the site. I have. Plus, I spent several days browsing sites with articles, resources, and examples of infovis (information visualization) in action. It’s not just about presenting data in a presentation or making things colorful. It’s a struggle for me as I haven’t practiced this process or created any charts in a long time. Updated: 9 February 2013 ShortURL to this post: Examples 5 Amazing Infographics for the Health Conscious10 Outstanding Social Media Graphics10 Revealing Infographics about the Web10×10 is “100 words and pictures that define time.”35 Great Social Media Infographics3D Animation of Linux Code Development7 Nights of Bright Eyes article and accompanying visual analysis of Conor Oberst.AInews.org: Note the .org!
Blogs Resources. The Visualizing Player on Datavisualization. Yesterday Visualizing.org launched version 1.0 of their Visualizing Player, a media player designed specifically for embedding and displaying infographics and data visualizations. Perhaps its best feature is that it’s nearly agnostic of the visualization format. Right now it supports HTML5, Java, Flash, PDF, Video, Image, and whole websites. Functionality of the player adapts to each format; interactive visualizations and videos are launched via a play button, high resolution images can be zoomed and panned to explore details. It also features a full-screen mode which launches a seperate browser window and is especially suited for interactive visualizations. It allows the user to favorite (account required), share and embed, and download a visualization.
As Visualizing.org is one of the few platforms that cares for proper licensing (all content is CC-licensed), you won’t have to worry about being allowed to embed and share visualizations with the Visualizing Player.