Open Visualisation

= 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:
 * open-visualisation mailing list
 * Open Visualisation Workshop
 * Software Tools

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)

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

 * ggplot2
 * shiny
 * rCharts
 * igraph

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

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

 * Therion
 * Survex

Diagram

 * DIA

Maps

 * Cartographer.js Thematic Maps for Google Maps
 * Open Layers Free Maps for the Web
 * TileMill Open source map design studio

Satellite

 * Savi

Projects

 * Swivel
 * Gapminder
 * ManyEyes
 * Open Processing
 * Add-A-Tag

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