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Jim Vallandingham Update: I moved the code to its own github repo - to make it easier to consume and maintain. Update #2 I’ve rewritten this tutorial in straight JavaScript. So if you aren’t that in to CoffeeScript, check the new one out! Recently, the New York Times featured a bubble chart of the proposed budget for 2013 by Shan Carter . It features some nice, organic, animations, and smooth transitions that add a lot of visual appeal to the graphic. This was all done using D3.js . As FlowingData commenters point out , the use of bubbles may or may not be the best way to display this dataset. In this post, we attempt to tease out some of the details of how this graphic works. #Simple Animated Bubble Chart In order to better understand the budget visualization, I’ve created a similar bubble chart that displays information about what education-based donations the Gates Foundation has made. You can see the full visualization here And the visualization code is on github #D3’s Force Layout #nodes #gravity #friction

Looking 4 data visualization: Tools . RAW est une nouvelle application web ouverte et gratuite qui permet de créer aisément des dataviz basées sur le framework D3.js de Mike Bostock (Data Designer au New York Times). . . 6 types de layouts / composants graphiques sont disponibles à ce jour : Treemap, Bubble Chart, Dendogram, Hexagonal Binning, Alluvial Diagram (Fineo), Circle Packing. . . 'raw is conceived to ease graphic production, not to replace it.

Raphaël—JavaScript Library World: Humanitarian and Country Icons 2012 - World ************************************* Icons optimized and hosted for use in online maps (64 and 32 pixel png images) by google. The 64px icons are recommended for use in Google Earth, and 32px icons are recommended for Google Maps. Web font by Tomnod: True type fonts, ESRI Stylesheets and QGIS XML files for the bounded, unbounded and transparent formats by MapAction: *************************************OCHA adds 500 free humanitarian symbols to communications tools and services The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs (OCHA) has created a set of 500 freely available humanitarian icons to help relief workers present emergency and crisis-related information quickly and simply.

Jim Vallandingham Sentence Drawings Stefanie Posavec is known for her manually curated and hand drawn visualizations that illuminate variations of structure and form in great works of literature. In this remix, automation is used in place of thoughtful analysis to recreate a selection of her First Chapters, in which a layout technique she calls "sentence drawings" is used to display the first chapters of classic books. Implemented in D3. Automatic Sentence Drawings Track Tag Love An experiment that allows users to explore their most-listened to songs, and the tags associated with these songs. User names are faked - but the rest of the data is real. Visualization includes a force-directed layout with tag nodes suspended in a circular orientation. Song nodes are drawn towards the tags they are associated with. Track Tag Love Dallas Neighborhood Comparison Tool This piece provides both scatter plot and interactive map, allowing the user to zoom in on one of over 500 neighborhoods in the metro area. Feltronifier

Selected Tools Flare | Data Visualization for the Web List of available online WMS services (Weather, Land Data, Place Names...) current community your communities Sign up or log in to customize your list. more stack exchange communities Stack Exchange sign up log in tour help Geographic Information Systems Ask Question Take the 2-minute tour × Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for cartographers, geographers and GIS professionals. List of available online WMS services (Weather, Land Data, Place Names…) 11 Answers active oldest votes Your Answer Sign up or log in Sign up using Google Sign up using Facebook Sign up using Stack Exchange Post as a guest discard By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service. Not the answer you're looking for? Get the weekly newsletter! Top questions and answers Important announcements Unanswered questions see an example newsletter By subscribing, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service. Linked WMS weather data for Europe Third party base layer other than Google map Related WMS + Google Earth + tilted view = alignment failure?

A Carefully Selected List of Recommended Tools on Datavisualization When I meet with people and talk about our work, I get asked a lot what technology we use to create interactive and dynamic data visualizations. At Interactive Things, we have a set of preferred libraries, applications and services that we use regularly in our work. We will select the most fitting tool for the job depending on the requirements of the project. That’s why we have put together a selection of tools that we use the most and that we enjoy working with. Let me answer the most likely questions right away: No, not everything find its’ way into this list, so you might not find your personal favorite.

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