Open Visualisation
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Open Visualisation
Visual representation is a time-tested way of making large, complex bodies of information manageable – whether in the form of maps, timelines, graphs, or charts. Emerging digital technologies have revolutionised what is possible in this domain.
These pages are to document open-source software for visualisation and existing (open) knowledge visualisation projects.
See also:
Software
Other listings:
- http://the.taoofmac.com/space/infoviz
- http://datavisualization.ch/tools/13-javascript-libraries-for-visualizations
Field meanings:
- Ratings go from 1-5
- Active goes from 1-3 (1 = inactive, 3 = very active)
Hosted
| Software | License | Active | Rating |
| Google Fusion Tables | Free to use (but not open) | Y | 4 |
| ManyEyes | Free to use (but not open) | Y | 4 |
| Wordle | ? | ? | 4 |
| NumberPicture | Free to use | Y | 4 |
Javascript
| Software | License | Active | Rating |
| JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit | BSD | 3 | 4 |
| processingjs | ? | 2 | 3 |
| jsviz | ? | ? | ? |
| js-treemap | ? | 1 | ? |
| protovis | BSD | 2/3 (v3.1) | 5 |
| Raphaël | MIT | 3 | ? |
| Flot | BSD | 3 (v0.6) | 4 |
| jQuery SVG | GPL, MIT | ? | ? |
| Dojo Toolkit | BSD, AFL | 2/3 | ? |
Flash
| Software | License | Active | Rating |
| Degrafa | ? | ||
| Flare | ? | 3 | 4 |
| Prefuse | ? | 2 | ? |
Python
| Software | License | Active | Rating |
| matplotlib | BSD | 3 | 5 |
| Orange | GPL | ? | ? |
Java
- Mondrian (GPL)
- jreality
- JFreechart (GPL)
- Processing
- Gephi (GPL 3) "Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs."
R
Other
- ruby-processing - ruby implementation
- GraphViz -- fast network visualization (C)
- networkx: python network visualization based on matplotlib (can also use graphviz)
- VTK - high performance esp. 3-d visualization (bindings to python, java etc)
Other (Not Much Known about
- Mindraider
- Graph Gear
- Ggobi
- Nodebox
- Clutter
- TouchGraph (undergoing changes, and currently being split into proprietary and open-source components)
- Drishti - visualization of 3D volume data
- BoB - "Brick of Bytes" visualization of 3D volume data
- OpenDX
- igraph - under GPL
- ParaView - open source data visualisation application.
- GD
- xgobi
Domain Specific
Bioinformatics
- Artemis
- CIRCOS
- synteView (GPL)
- lookseq - developed by Magnus Manske at Sanger Institute, available under GPL
- xmatchview - developed by Canada's Michael Smith Genome Science Centre, licensed under GPL
- sam - license not clear
- Cytoscape - "bioinformatics software platform for visualizing molecular interaction networks and integrating these interactions with gene expression profiles and other state data", under LGPL.
Cave and caving
Diagram
Maps
- Cartographer.js Thematic Maps for Google Maps
- Open Layers Free Maps for the Web
- TileMill Open source map design studio
Satellite
Projects
Blogs and references
todo: aggregate feeds
- Infosthetics
- Datavisualization.ch
- Open Source Graph or Network Visualisation - listing of packages
- Visual Complexity
- WikiViz
- Chris Harrison's Visualization page
- From Tom Carden's blog:
- http://infosthetics.com/
- http://flowingdata.com/
- http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
- http://benfry.com/writing/
- http://www.formfollowsbehavior.com/
- http://dd.dynamicdiagrams.com/
- http://blog.many-eyes.com/
- http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/
- http://simplecomplexity.net/
- http://leebyron.com/how/
- http://eagereyes.org/
- http://accuracyandaesthetics.com/
- http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/
- http://diuf.unifr.ch/people/bertinie/visuale/
- http://well-formed-data.net/
- http://www.numberpix.com/
- http://www.mentegrafica.it/blog/
- http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/
- http://informationandvisualization.de/
- http://designnotes.info/
- http://perceptualedge.com/blog/
- http://shiffman.net/
- http://abeautifulwww.com/
- http://makingmaps.wordpress.com/
Articles and Books
- The original graphical guru: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi and http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_ei
- Websites as Graphs
- http://www.tacticaltech.org/infodesign Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design, by Tactical Tech