Comments on: 20 Useful Visualization Libraries

By: Ester

Ester — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:52:31 +0000

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By: zodziai dainu

zodziai dainu — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:15:34 +0000

Excelent! Thanks for this really great post! Great collection!

By: Michael E Driscoll

Michael E Driscoll — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:00:02 +0000

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.

By: Gregor

Gregor — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:06:36 +0000

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.

By: Tom Gonzalez

Tom Gonzalez — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:29:51 +0000

You might want to also check out this open source project for Flex and ActionScript 3

http://www.axiis.org

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:24:51 +0000

For javascript users: http://thejit.org implements HyperTrees/Graphs visualizations, Treemaps (Squarified, SliceAndDice, Strip layouts), SpaceTrees, Radial Layouts and a lot more.

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VC blog » Blog Archive » Libraries & Open Visualization — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:31:17 +0000

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By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:43:23 +0000

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.

By: Ricky

Ricky — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:42:40 +0000

Do you know this great visualization tool: http://www.chartle.net

By: Benjamin Wiederkehr

Benjamin Wiederkehr — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:36:40 +0000

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,
â€“Benjamin