Comments on: 20 Useful Visualization Libraries

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,
–Benjamin

By: Gerry Power

Gerry Power — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:28:37 +0000

Also, open source Wilmascope:

“WilmaScope is a Java3D application which creates real time 3d animations of dynamic graph structures.”

http://wilma.sourceforge.net/

By: Mike Chelen

Mike Chelen — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:00:49 +0000

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!