Software Links (InfoVis Applications)

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Overview/Link Sites

Applications

Free/Open Source

  • ExploreTree is a tool (Java, written using Processing) for interactive visualization of tree structures.
  • 3D Topicscape Student Edition is a free information visualization tool to assist with organizing notes and web pages in a 3D landscape.
  • Many Eyes Free visualization site from IBM Research.
  • Improvise An interactive information visualization builder and browser.
  • Orange A component based data-mining software with several visualization methods like scatterplot, radviz, polyviz, parallel coordinates, mosaic plot, survey plot, sieve diagram, ...
  • Mondrian Mondrian is a statistical data-visualization system written in JAVA. The main emphasis of Mondrian is on visualization techniques for Categorical Data , Geographical Data and LARGE Data. Currently it features Mosaic Plot, Scatter Plots, Maps, Barcharts, Histograms, Parallel Coordinates/Boxplots and Boxplots y by x.
  • 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
  • XmdvTool a tool for exploratory visualization of multivariate data
  • DeliVis A cluster map visualization of social bookmarks of del.icio.us
  • Caleydo a tool made for exploration of gene expression data and pathways, but also usable for general spreadsheet data. It includes a 3D view management approach, a hierachical heat map, parallel coordinates, histograms and implements several clustering algorithms.

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)
  • Software from Panopticon is available for a free 30 day evaluation if you provide your contact information. Apart from the treemap visualization, Panopticon offers about 10 different visualizations including the Horizon Graph. Panopticon EX is a product for design and web publication of dashboards, while Panopticon Developer is an SDK for code level integration of the visualization technology from Panopticon in your own projects.
  • del.icio.us most popular treemap
  • Macrofocus TreeMap An easy to use treemapping tool with examples, available both as desktop application as well as web-enabled applet
  • Ariadne Search Tool A treemap is used to classify learning objects. More information is also available here
  • Coffee Selector Peet's Coffe & Tea treemaps

Commercial

  • 3D Topicscape is an information visualization tool to assist with organizing notes and computer files in a 3D landscape.
  • Macrofocus InfoScope is an interactive visualization tool to explore large or complex datasets
  • BonaVista MicroCharts, Sparklines, bullet graphs and other in-cell charts for Excel, dynamic chart formulas update your charts, multi-colored sparklines
  • Bissantz SparkMaker is an Office add-in for sparklines in dashboards, spreadsheets, presentations and reports. Sparklines are available as bar or line graphics, whiskers and pie charts. User-defined functions for Excel, like "Sparkline (cellrange)", ensure that changes in the data are reflected automatically in the sparkline diagram. Sparklines are also available in vector-oriented Enhanced Metafile format and as bitmap files (BMP, GIF, JPG, or PNG). Free 30-day trial with full functionality.
  • Tom Snyder Productions: TimeLiner
  • e!Sankey Visualize any type of flow data (material, energy, cost, ...) in Sankey diagrams. Shareware
  • 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)
  • ILOG JViews ILOG JViews components provide custom, graphical components for high-end desktop, Ajax, and Eclipse displays.
  • 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.
  • Software from Panopticon is available for a free 30 day evaluation if you provide your contact information. Apart from the treemap visualization, Panopticon offers about 10 different visualizations including the Horizon Graph. Panopticon EX is a product for design and web publication of dashboards, while Panopticon Developer is an SDK for code level integration of the visualization technology from Panopticon in your own projects.
  • Crystal Xcelsius Create interactive visual analytics, business presentations and visual calculators from ordinary spreadsheets – then integrate them into PowerPoint, PDF and the Web.
  • Visumap: A visualization tool for high dimensional data. Turns tabular data quickly into 2D and 3D map.
  • ComVis ComVis is an interactive visual analysis tool which is useful for the in-depth investigation of large and multi-dimensional datasets.
  • clickdensity clickdensity is a commercial usability tool that monitors and visualizes the usage of webpages (with heatmap, eg.) to identify usability and information architecture issues.
  • NovoSpark Visualizer A multidimensional data visualization tool for analysis of static and dynamic data. Free download.

Web applications/services