Tools

Summaries of Tools

• • 2011 ComputerWorld summary of top 22

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  • Wikipedia Data Visualization Tools

• DegreeCentral: 17 free tools

  • 75 tools--great summary by technology type (Flash, CSS, JavaScript, etc)

Free InfoVis Tools

Many Eyes

Gephi

GGobi requires download

Google Chart API (static charts output as images)

Google Visualization API

Google Motion Charts and Google Public Data Explorer

GapMinder supports some visualizations

TreeMap software from UMD HCIL

Weave

Commercial Products

Tableau Free for class use

MapPoint (maps for Excel; free 60 day trial)

Infozoom

Spotfire

Swivel

BonaVista MicroCharts

Hive Group: treemapping

yFiles

aiSee (noncommercial version available)

IBM ILOG

Tom Sawyer Software

Oculus

SAP: STARTREE, TABLELENS, TIMEWALL, VIZSERVER

Panopticon

VisuaLinks

Analyst's Notebook

DiamondTouch SDK

TheBrain

Fusion Charts (useful because you can see the .js, xml and json code for each chart)

Wolfram Alpha Pro

Visualization Toolkits/Programming (open source)

Protovis

Standards/Graphics Libraries: OpenGL

Mesa3d Graphics Library

Protege Ontology Toolkit

Toolkits:

InfoVis Toolkit

Piccolo

Prefuse

Flare

Visualization Toolkit(vtk)

Processing

ZVTM: Zoomable Visual Transformation Machine

OpenDX

XmdvTool

Tulip

GraphViz

NodeBox

JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit

Open Laszlo

Applications

Excentric Labels

Fisheye Menus

Lifelines

PhotoMesa

TimeSearcher

FaceFinder

H3Viewer

Geomview

SequoiaView

Hierarchical Clustering Explorer

SpaceTree

Mondrian

EzChooser

Circos

Attribute Explorer

GRIDL: GRaphical Interface for Digital Libraries

LifeLines

WebTOC

Visible Human Project

spicynodes animation to enhancement network browsing

freemind Mind Mapping

ChartChooser