Backbone.js Datavisualization.ch Selected Tools Raphaël—JavaScript Library Mind Mapping Software - Create Mind Maps online jQuery Visualize | CartoDB Create multi-layer and fully interactive maps for the web and mobile Customize the appearance of your basemap and your interactive data layers with just a few clicks. From point maps to complex thematic visualization, all with the help of our wizards. For advanced map styling, use the map style editor and access the power of CartoCSS, a cascading style sheets language for maps. Cool maps made easy With great looking built-in styles, instantly create thematic or density maps from your data. CartoDB comes preloaded with a range of bubble, choropleth and density map options, allowing you to generate meaningful visualizations in minutes. Introducing PourOver and Tamper Client-side superfast collection management from the NYT This project was documented and released as part of the first OpenNews Code Convening. Today we’re open-sourcing two internal projects from The Times: PourOver.js, a library for fast filtering, sorting, updating and viewing large (100k+ item) categorical datasets in the browser, andTamper, a companion protocol for compressing categorical data on the server and decompressing in your browser. We invite you to explore the docs and examples for both projects; we also have some next examples over on the Times’ Open blog. Collections are important to developers, especially news developers. Dissatisfied with this state of the art, we made PourOver as an attempt to standardize an efficient and extensible model of client-side collection management and weaken reliance on server-side collection operations. The genesis of PourOver is found in the 2012 London Olympics. Enter Tamper The classic arc goes something like this: Buffered PourOvers
These Simple Interactive News Maps Give Your Stories A Sense Of Place ⚙ Co Interactive maps can draw people into complicated stories in an easy-to-understand way, making them great traffic-earners for media sites. But building those maps often involves working with arcane geographical software and writing lots of JavaScript, making Internet cartography too difficult and time-consuming for many journalists and online storytellers. The founders of Vizzuality, the company behind the cloud-based mapping tool CartoDB, intend to democratize interactive maps so that overhead is a thing of the past. “Anybody who knows how to use Excel should be able to build a map,” said Vizzuality CEO and cofounder Javier de la Torre. “We want to provide the technology so that they can do it.” CartoDB makes it possible to create interactive maps just by uploading a spreadsheet with a column of addresses or other location information. This month, Vizzuality also announced support for geo-temporal mapping, meaning animated maps that show changes in datasets over time.