Rhizosphere

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Rhizosphere is an innovative approach to help you navigate and filter through your data. Lightweight, web-based, intuitive, its purpose is to provide a simple but effective way to flow through your data, isolate them, filter them and help you locate that information that you know it's there, but it's lost amidst the noise. 

100% pure HTML and JS, no Flash, no Java, no Silverlight, no plugins. You just need your browser. 

The Rhizosphere project focuses both on traditional and innovative ways to browse through data: 

  • A desktop like metaphor, with Selections and Drag'n'Drop
  • Endless Desktop (like Google Maps scrolling)
  • Zooming
  • Dynamic Filtering
  • Data layouting
  • Data fetching and remoting
  • Interoperability with multiple sources
  • Color coding and information clouds

The project focuses on merging together the benefits of the desktop metaphor with the ubiquity and flexibilty of a web based approach.

Rhizosphere integrates with other technologies and can be used to navigate your data inside Google Docs and Google Gadgets.

Documentation

Start browsing the Documentation.

Code

Wanna take a look at the code? It's all open-source and available here. And, by the way, less than 30kb of Javascript, 100kb including external dependencies.

Or read through the features being developed. You can also suggest a new feature or bug.

Try it!

Wanna try it now? Follow this link to the bleeding edge version of the library :


Be aware that the above link points to the very latest Rhizosphere code, that may sometimes not work properly, depending on the latest changes.


Alternatively, try locating the (fictional) phone that suits your needs, using a version of Rhizosphere embedded in a Google Spreadsheet.

Warning: Rhizosphere is still alpha quality. Internet Explorer is still unsupported. Use Firefox, Safari, Opera or Google Chrome!

Videos

Demonstration Video (on a TouchScreen!)


More videos? Take a look at the Videos page