Tools
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Tools for multivariate data
- Attribute explorer, from IBM: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/visualexplorer
- OmniViz. http://www.omniviz.com/
- Inxight Tablelens (Eureka). http://www.inxight.com/products/sdks/tl/
- GGobi, is visualization software for viewing high-dimensional data. A variety of multivariate graphics such as tours and parallel coordinate plots are available. http://www.ggobi.org/
- Mondrian, is a general purpose statistical data-visualization system written in JAVA. It features outstanding visualization techniques for Categorical Data, Geographical Data and LARGE Data.http://rosuda.org/Mondrian/Mondrian.html
- Tableau Public, is a free application that brings data to life. Create and share interactive charts and graphs, stunning maps, live dashboards and fun applications in minutes then publish anywhere on the web. http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/
- Visulab, (short for visualisation laboratory) is an experimental software package for the comparative visualisation of multivariate data. The latest Release of this software is designed as an Add-In to work in Microsoft Excel 2000, XP, 2003 and up. http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/hinterbe/Visulab/
- Xgobi, A system for multivariate data visualization. http://public.research.att.com/~stat/xgobi/
- Xmdvtool. Public-domain software package for the interactive visual exploration of multivariate data sets. http://davis.wpi.edu/~xmdv/
Tools for network data and hierarchical data
- CmapTools. http://cmap.ihmc.us. A concept map editor.
- Freemind. http://freemind.sourceforge.net. Free software for mind-mapping. Useful to draw brainstorm notes, structure ideas, etc.
- Gepi. http://gephi.org/. Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs. Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Gephi is open-source and free.
- Guess. http://graphexploration.cond.org. GUESS is an exploratory data analysis and visualization tool for graphs and networks.
- Graphviz. http://www.graphviz.org/
- GVF - The Graph Visualization Framework. http://gvf.sourceforge.net/. The Graph Visualization Framework is a set of design patterns and approaches that can serve as an example for applications that either manipulate graph structures or visualize them.
- JUNG. The Java Universal Network/Graph Framework is a software library that provides a common and extendible language for the modeling, analysis, and visualization of data that can be represented as a graph or network. http://jung.sourceforge.net/
- Morcego. Morcego is a 3D network browser written in Java and released under LGPL license. http://morcego.arca.ime.usp.br
- NetVis Module, Dynamic Visualization of Social Networks. http://www.netvis.org
- SemaSpace, SemaSpace is a fast and easy to use graph editor for large knowledge networks. http://residence.aec.at/didi/FLweb/
- Starlight. http://starlight.pnl.gov/
- TouchGraph. http://www.touchgraph.com
- ThinkMap. Nice visual maps. http://www.thinkmap.com/
- Tom Sawyer. Commercial graph drawing product line. http://www.tomsawyer.com
- Treemap. By University of Maryland. http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/index.shtml
- Treemap. By Macrofocus. http://www.macrofocus.com/public/products/treemap.html
- Tulip. http://www.labri.fr/perso/auber/projects/tulip/. Tulip, a huge graph visualization framework.
- Walrus, is a tool for interactively visualizing large directed graphs in three-dimensional space. By employing a fisheye-like distortion, it provides a display that simultaneously shows local detail and the global context. http://www.caida.org/tools/visualization/walrus/
Tools for textual data
- IN-SPIRE. IN-SPIRE™ provides tools for exploring textual data, including Boolean and “topical” queries, term gisting, and time/trend analysis tools. This suite of tools allows the user to rapidly discover hidden information relationships by reading only pertinent documents.http://in-spire.pnl.gov/
Toolkits
A toolkit is a software package that supports the development of several graphical representations. Most well known are:
- Flare visualization toolkit. http://flare.prefuse.org. Flare is a collection of ActionScript 3 classes for building a wide variety of interactive visualizations. For example, flare can be used to build basic charts, complex animations, network diagrams, treemaps, and more. Flare is written in the ActionScript 3 programming language and can be used to build visualizations that run on the web in the Adobe Flash Player.
- Piccolo toolkit, from the University of Maryland. It's a toolkit focused on zooming interfaces. Available for Java and C#. URL: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/piccolo/
- Prefuse, from the Univeristy of California, Berkeley and Palo Alto Research Center. It allows to represent networks, hierarchies, and non-connected collections of data (timelines, scatterplots). It's written in Java. URL: http://prefuse.sourceforge.net/
- The InfoVis CyberInfrastructure, from University of Indiana. It's a generic toolkit that incorporates several representations. Runs with Java. URL: http://iv.slis.indiana.edu/.
- The InfoVis Toolkit, from INRIA, France. A general infovis toolkit. The version 0.8, implements eight (8) types of visualization: Scatter Plots, Time Series and Parallel Coordinates for tables; Node-Link diagrams, Icicle trees and Treemaps for trees; Adjacency Matrices and Node-Link diagrams for graphs. Written in Java. URL: http://ivtk.sourceforge.net.
- GAV, from Linköping University, is a generic GeoAnalytics Visualization (GAV) component toolkit, based on the principles behind Visaul Analytics, but with more focus on the explorative data analysis (EDA). http://nvis.itn.liu.se/GAV/
- GeoVISTA Studio is an open software development environment designed for geospatial data. By the Department of Geography of Penn State University. URL: http://www.geovistastudio.psu.edu
- Pajek, for large network analysis, from the University of Ljubljana. URL: http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/
- JUNG: Java Universal Network/Graph Framework, from the University of California, Irvine. It is a software library that provides a common and extendible language for the modeling, analysis, and visualization of data that can be represented as a graph or network. It is written in Java. URL: http://jung.sourceforge.net/
- The Visualization ToolKit (VTK), is an open source software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization. It consists of a C class library, and several interpreted interface layers including Tcl/Tk, Java, and Python. URL: http://public.kitware.com/VTK/
- InfiView, http://www.infiview.com/, Ajax Framework for Data Visualization
Generic Visualization tools
- Dataplot. Dataplot is a free, public-domain, multi-platform (Unix, VMS, Linux, Windows 95/98/ME/XP/NT/2000, etc.) software system for scientific visualization, statistical analysis, and non-linear modeling. http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/software/dataplot/.
- Gnuplot. http://www.gnuplot.info/. Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility
- IRIS Explorer. http://www.nag.co.uk/welcome_iec.asp. There is also a centre of excellence: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/iecoe/
- OpenDX. Open Source software for scientific and categorical data visualization. http://www.opendx.org
- Starlight
Statistics tools
- S-PLUS. Tool for statistical graphical analysis, by Insightful Corporation. http://www.insightful.com/
Programming languages for visualizations
- SVG
- Processing (http://processing.org)
