Here is an interesting new project dealing with creation of data visualizations. With the mountains of data we can collect, data visualizations are becoming essential to unraveling the mysteries held there within. The project at the moment isn’t quite plug-n-play, but if you are comfortable with html and don’t mind tinkering around with it you can generate some pretty cool looking visuals.
Protovis is a visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG. It takes a graphical approach to data visualization, composing custom views of data with simple graphical primitives like bars and dots. These primitives are called marks, and each mark encodes data visually through dynamic properties such as color and position.
Technology Review: Simpler Data Visualization
There are many ways to slice and dice data to better understand what it means. Software like Microsoft’s Excel offers a simple way to create charts and graphs, while more complex applications, such as IBM’s Many Eyes, provide more interesting ways to visualize more complex data. Specialized programming languages can do more by tweaking the design of visualizations. But these languages tend to be difficult for non-experts to use…Now researchers at Stanford are offering a suite of tools called Protovis that streamline the process of building data visualizations.
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WPMu Development for Education » Blog Archive » User-centered technology on Sep 21 09 at 6:15 am[...] New browser-based data visualization tool [...]
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