20 Useful Visualization Libraries
September 8th, 2008Well, not entirely limited to libraries. Useful stuff for visualization practitioners sounded a little non-specific, though. These are all freely available.
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2. simile (AJAX)
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3. Processing (Java) |
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4. GigaPan (Service) |
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5. Modest Maps (Flash, Python)
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6. Google Visualization API (Javascript)
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7. Google Chart API (Javascript)
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| 8. Google Maps API (Javascript, Flash) |
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9. GraphViz (Wrappers for a dozen languages including Java, Perl, Python. Free.)
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10. JFree (Java)
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11. pChart (PHP)
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12. OpenLayers (JavaScript)
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13. Anti-Grain (C++)
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14. JGraph (Java)
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| 15. Boost Graph Library (C++, phyton wrapper) |
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16. Open Flash Chart (Flash)
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17. Ubigraph (Wrappers for Python, Java, C, and more)
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18. JUNG (Java)
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19. TimeMap (Java)
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20. Many Eyes (online service)
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September 8th, 2008 at 3:39 am
Great post! Thank you for this, I can’t wait to start exploring all of them.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Awesome! Thanks for this great post!
September 9th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc is a good place to look too.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:32 am
boost::graph is not visualization, just a graph representation.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Actually, Boost Graph has layout algorithms, which are visualization algorithms.
Todd
October 6th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Not sure if you’ve seen FYI Visual.
It was originally created in 1989 as the GIFIC technology.
http://www.fyicorp.com
Thanks,
Kim
October 15th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Great info.
Reminds me of an article I ran into that talks about Visualization making its way into Enterprise Software
Visualization Video
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
You might add BirdEye to the list:
http://code.google.com/p/birdeye/
November 23rd, 2008 at 1:58 am
Nice to see new trends in visualization. I think new solutions gives more user friendly interface and more power to everyone
December 18th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Processing.js is my favorite for flexibility because it can run entirely crossplatform in any web browser, and because fully open source software is easier in the long run to use and expand.
Thanks for all these great tools to check out!
January 4th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Also, open source Wilmascope:
“WilmaScope is a Java3D application which creates real time 3d animations of dynamic graph structures.”
http://wilma.sourceforge.net/
February 9th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Great collection! Thanks for covering such a broad field of languages and including online services.
One addition could be done: ModestMaps got converted to Processing as well and is as easy to use as the AS or Python versions.
Thanks,
–Benjamin
March 25th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Do you know this great visualization tool: http://www.chartle.net
July 30th, 2009 at 10:43 am
If python is your preferred language, you should definitely look at:
matplotlib: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/
– for 2D publication-quality plotting
chaco: http://code.enthought.com/chaco/
– for 2D interactive visualization
mayavi: http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/
– for 3D interactive visualization
All BSD-style open source libraries with python interfaces.
September 22nd, 2009 at 5:31 pm
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September 23rd, 2009 at 6:24 am
For javascript users: http://thejit.org implements HyperTrees/Graphs visualizations, Treemaps (Squarified, SliceAndDice, Strip layouts), SpaceTrees, Radial Layouts and a lot more.
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:29 pm
You might want to also check out this open source project for Flex and ActionScript 3
http://www.axiis.org
September 30th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
It’s “flare”, not “FLAIR” and it’s more an actionscript visualization library than a flex library, because there’s no integration for things like MXML or flex ui components.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:00 am
I dare say you’ve failed to mention two important visualization libraries, both based on Leland Wilkinson’s Grammar of Graphics.
* Hadley Wickham’s ggplot2 library for R
* had.co.nz/ggplot2/
* Mike Bostock’s Protovis library for Javascript
* http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/
Prof. Wickham’s package is perhaps the most elegant and powerful statistical visualization package to come down the pike in a long time.
February 7th, 2010 at 10:15 am
Excelent! Thanks for this really great post! Great collection!
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