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38 Tools For Beautiful Data Visualisations

38 Tools For Beautiful Data Visualisations
As we enter the Big Data era, it becomes more important to properly expand our capacity to process information for analysis and communication purposes. In a business context, this is evident as good visualisation techniques can support statistical treatment of data, or even become an analysis technique. But also, can be used as a communication tool to report insights that inform decisions. Today there are plenty of tools out there that can be used to improve your data visualisation efforts at every level. Javascript Libraries Circular Hierarchy – D3.js Python Libraries Kartograph.py – Mapsigraph – Node-link, treesMatplotlib – Most types of statistical plotsPycha – Pie chart, bar chart, area chartNetworkX – Node-link Java / PHP Prefuse – Area chart, Time series, node-link, tree, timeline, steam graph, radial hierarchyJpGraph – Line plot, scatter plot, bar chart, bubble chart, contours chart, field chart, splines, pie chart, boxplot, polar plot, radial chart, maps Web Applications Related:  ⏫ Analytics

Raphaël—JavaScript Library Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. Growing importance of content discovery platforms for publishers | Media Network - Outbrain partner zone | Guardian Professional Stephanie Himoff: "Content discovery is continuing to grow in importance and it’s fantastic to be able to work with Guardian News & Media." Photograph: Eric Savage/Getty Images Guardian News & Media has partnered with leading content discovery platform Outbrain to increase user engagement across its site, via smart personalised recommendations on editorial content. Guardian News & Media will work with Outbrain, using its complete solution for content recommendation across text articles. Tim Gentry at Guardian News & Media said: "We are constantly looking for new ways to showcase our award-winning journalism and keep our ever-increasing audiences interested, engaged and active with relevant content across our digital platforms. Stephanie Himoff, Outbrain's UK Managing Director said: "The Guardian is one of the most innovative and forward thinking publishers in the world. Copy on this page is provided by Outbrain, supporter of the digital content hub

HeliosJS by entrendipity HeliosJS is an in-memory graph database for modern browsers. It employs a non-blocking asynchronous architecture through the use of Promises and Web Workers, and therefore is only available in browsers that support Web Workers. This enables HeliosJS to download and process large data sets without blocking the UI. In order to traverse the graph, HeliosJS uses a Gremlin inspired graph traversal language to query, analyze and manipulate the graph. Getting Started Copy the helios directory to your project's root directory. N.B. Now create a graph database and load some data. var g = new Helios.GraphDatabase(); g.loadGraphSON(' Then travese the graph. Lets break this down. The next step loads data into the database using the loadGraphSON function. Once the data is loaded we travese the graph. Documentation Conventions Function signatures Function signatures are based on the TypeScript notation. Closures top id()

Software Tools Open Source Licenses Non-Commercial Binary Licenses Non-Commercial Source Licenses You are welcome to download and use the software tools appearing on this page that have been developed by AT&T Labs researchers. Please reference the individual project web pages for specific license agreements. In addition to the software tools available through Open Source and Non-Commercial licenses as listed on this page, AT&T has additional software and technology solutions available for licensing. AST: Advanced Software Technologies Open Source Collection AST (AT&T Software Technology) OpenSource software is a collection of libraries and commands for UNIX and Windows. Some of the more popular components include: cdt, dss, ksh93, nmake, pax, sfio, vcodex, and vmalloc. CDT: Container Data Types Library A Container Data Type library. ECharts: A state machine-based programming language FastRWeb: FastRWeb is an infrastructure for web-based reporting, data analysis and visualization using R.

Gephi makes graphs handly The Best Tools for Visualization Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data. When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand. There are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communities, and almost anything else you can think of. Whether you want a desktop application or a web-based tool, there are many specific tools are available on the web that let you visualize all kinds of data. Here are some of the best: Visualize Social Networks Last.Forward: Thanks to Last.fm's new widget gallery, you can now explore a wide selection of extras to extend your Last.fm experience. Last Forward Friends Sociomap: Friends Sociomap is another Last.fm tools that generates a map of the music compatibility between you and your Last.fm friends. Fidg't:Fidg't is a desktop application that gives you a way to view your networks tagging habits. Fidg't The Digg Tools: One more: Digg Radar . YouTube: Visualize Music Musicovery Last.fm music visual tools: Amazon Data

A New Visualization Method Makes Research More Organized and Efficient DiscoveryA New Visualization Method Makes Research More Organized and Efficient The Action Science Explorer (ASE) helps reveal emerging trends and controversies and encourages collaborations within the research community December 7, 2011 The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Action Science Explorer (ASE) allows users to simultaneously search through thousands of academic papers, using a visualization method that determines how papers are connected, for instance, by topic, date, authors, etc. The goal is to use these connections to identify emerging scientific trends and advances. "We are creating an early warning system for scientific breakthroughs," said Ben Shneiderman, a professor at the University of Maryland (UM) and founding director of the UM Human-Computer Interaction Lab. ASE is not itself a product, but rather "a scientific research study that shows some potent new features that could be added to bibliographic systems to support more powerful functions," said Shneiderman.

Source Code & Tutorials Recently, I have released source code for a number of projects. In most cases these projects are released as they were published – while the code is reasonably well-commented, the projects weren’t build specifically to be released and thus may not be shining examples of standards and software architecture. That said, I hope that these releases will serve as inspiration for you to make some things of your own. If you do end up building something interesting, please let me know. Source Code Processing Kepler Visualization[post][GitHub]tree.gowth [post][project][download]GoodMorning! ActionScript 2 Variance [post][project][download]smart.rockets [post][project][download]Particle Swarm Optimization [download] Except where otherwise noted, all source releases are licensed under the CC-GNU GPL version 2.0 or later. Tutorials In addition to source releases, I have also written a number of tutorials designed to help people learn how to use code in a creative context.

Jack Hagley is a London based Graphic Designer specialising in... - Jack Hagley // Graphic Design // Infographics Jack Hagley is a London based Graphic Designer specialising in Infographics Specialist in infographic design and data visualisation. I also do iconography, illustration, branding, art direction and various other graphic design projects. Tell me about your project My work has been in The Times, the Guardian and Wired and I've been lucky enough to work under David McCandless at Information is Beautiful. Loves: Challenges, clarity, learning, deadlines. Get the most up-to-date version of my Infographic CV here. No Flash. PinterestTumblrTwitterExperimental Stuff

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