Software Links (InfoVis Applications)

Overview/Link Sites

• InfoViz - repository
• Information Visualization Software at the OpenDirectory

Applications

Free/Open Source

• Filelight Recursive graphical display of disk usage
• BROWSER a tool for time-series exploration
• fishnet Fishnet is a web browser that always displays web pages in their entirety, independent of their size. Fishnet accomplishes this by using a fisheye view.
• Macrofocus - city'o'scope
• alphaWorks : Visual Attribute Explorer A tool that provides rapid data analysis through attribute bar charts and parallel coordinate plots.
• Visualising the J2EE Management Model
• OpenDX Open Source Visualization framework based on IBM's Visualization Data Explorer
• EtherApe A graphical network monitor

Treemap related

• Disk Inventory X Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3. It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called "treemaps".
• The SequoiaView Homepage Standard treemaps often lead to thin rectangles. We have developed a new method to display files : Squarified treemaps. The screen is subdivided such that rectangles approach squares as closely as possible.
• Newsmap Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator.
• NewsTiles Konfabulator Widget for Newsmap (Treemap)
• Disk Mapper - frees up megabytes of hard disk space (commercial)
• Panopticon Explorer .NET is available for immediate download in a free Learning Edition available here. Frees up megabytes of hard disk space but also gives an instant overview of other local resources on your PC, such as processes and log files. Users can also visually explore other types of data, such as Excel sheets with large amounts of data.
• del.icio.us most popular treemap

Commercial

• Tom Snyder Productions: TimeLiner
• VxInsight - Sandia National Laboratories
• AVS: Advanced Visual Systems: Data Visualization
• InfoZoom InfoZoom is an intelligent tool that allows you to quickly analyze and display large amounts of data in an easy-to-understand format.
• ILOG Discovery Preview ILOG Discovery Preview is an experimental visualization tool for analyzing data sets intuitively and communicating findings within an enterprise information system. (free preview software downloadable)
• NetCharts Graphing Tools NetCharts-brand graphics can be populated and deployed in virtually any environment and architecture. Client-side, server-side, database or file-driven, J2EE, PDF, or even .NET.it doesn't matter - NetCharts products integrate with all kinds of data and deployment situations.
• SHriMP (Simple Hierarchical Multi-Perspective) SHriMP is both an application and a technique, designed for visualizing and exploring software architecture and any other information space. University of Victoria
• Spotfire DecisionSite
• Time Series data display and analysis
• Disk Mapper - frees up megabytes of hard disk space
• Inxight VizServer
• Tableau Tableau is a visual analysis and reporting solution that allows people to explore and analyze databases with simple drag and drop operations.
• Panopticon Software creates visual data analysis technology for exploration and discovery of data in databases or other sources using simple drag and drop operations. They just released a new product called Panopticon Explorer .NET, which is available for immediate download in a free Learning Edition. This application gives an instant overview of local resources on your PC (files, processes etc), and also allows users to visually explore other types of data, such as Excel sheets with large amounts of data.
• Crystal Xcelsius Create interactive visual analytics, business presentations and visual calculators from ordinary spreadsheets – then integrate them into PowerPoint, PDF and the Web.

Web applications/services

• MusicMaps
• Attribute Explorer Applet
• newsmap
• The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager
• liveplasma music, movies, search engine and discovery engine
• social circles mailing list social visualization by Marcos Weskamp
• flickr graph a social network visualization inside flickr.com by Marcos Weskamp
• Sparkline Generator written in Python by Joe Gregorio
• del.icio.us most popular treemap