The InfoVis Toolkit

Summary

Author: Jean-Daniel Fekete / INRIA Futurs
Project Webpage: http://www.lri.fr/~fekete/InfovisToolkit/
Current Version: 0.6alpha2, Mar, 26 2004
Requirements: Java 1.4

Base data structure: table of columns; columns contain objects of equal type; trees and graphs are derived from tables
Included visualization techniques: Scatter Plot; Time Series Plot; Parallel Coordinates; Node-Link Diagram; Icicle Tree; Treemap; Adjacency Matrix
Supported File Formats: CSV, XML, TQD, Newick, TM3, DOT, XML TreeML, XML GraphML

Pros

• Structure analoguous to Visualization Reference Model
• Explicit use of metadata
• Open source
• Demos and examples included
  

Cons

• Many classes
• Poor documentation
  

Details

Top-Level Structure

Column

A column is an indexed collection of values of homogeneous type.

Table

The Table is the base class of all infovis dataset  containers. An abstract table manages a list of columns.

Tree

Base proxy for considering a table as a tree structure.

Graph

A Graph class for Information Visualization.  A Graph references one or two vertex tables and is an edge table.

Visualization

Base class for all the visualizations.

Metadata

Metadata interface and constants for qualifying columns and tables.

Packages

io

basic input/output classes

metadata

 several metadata categories

panel

control panels and interaction components

visualization

visualization  internals

table

provides a set of classes related to visualization of tables.

tree

provides a set of classes related to visualization of trees.

graph

provides a set of classes related to visualization of graphs.

Visual attributes

Generic

color

label

size