Data visualization software

Here is a list of software and other tools that can be used for data visualization. Feel free to add others and comment on your experience with any of them.

• http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ – Selected tools
• *Many Eyes. *http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/ Cf. related article on this tool in the knowledgebase. http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/many-eyes
• Swivel: http://www.swivel.com/
• Tableau Public: http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/
• Google Visualization API’sAPI Reference – http:https://code.developers.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/chart/interactive/docs/reference
  _From an August 31, 2010 post by Ruben R. Puentedura <rubenrp@HIPPASUS.COM> to the NMC Technology Advisory Board listserv _
• *Programming languages designed for visualization: *my current favorite here is Processing (http://processing.org/) . Processing code runs on top of Java, so it can run standalone or as an applet in the browser. A significant subset of Processing has been ported to JavaScript (http://processingjs.org/), so you can write visualization code that runs in HTML 5 browsers.
• Programming libraries designed for visualization: while there are options for just about any programming language you can think of, I am particularly impressed by two JavaScript libraries: the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit (http://thejit.org/) and Protovis (http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/) – either one will help you create powerful interactive visualizations that run in the browser.
• Infogram – they provide templates, you add the data.