Resources

(A bit dated, but will keep it here for historical fun.)

Resource Collections | Blogs | InfoVis toolkits & libraries | Data Sets & Collections | Companies/Products | Examples/Collections | Research Groups

InfoVis Resources & Collections

Daily Tekk - Over 100 InfoVis tools and resources

InfoVis:Wiki - Hosted at Vienna University of Technology

Information Visualization web site - Info Vis community information & mail list

Infovis.net - Digital magazine about area

InfoVis Blogs

Infosthetics

visual.ly

visualizing.org

Flowing Data

Information is Beautiful

InfoVis Toolkits

datavisualization.ch - List of recommended tools

Processing

D3 - The new hot InfoVis library

Protovis

Flare - prefuse in ActionScript & Flash

Prefuse - General InfoVis Toolkit (java) by Jeffrey Heer

Piccolo 2D - Nice toolkit especially for zooming interfaces

Javascript InfoVis Toolkit

InfoVis Toolkit - General Toolkit by Jean-Daniel Fekete

Data Sets & Collections

Credit card complaints - From Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Variety of data sources - From Daily Tekk (down on page)

World Health Indicators - From National Center for Health Statistics

CS 4460 Resource List - Jim Foley ugrad course at GT

Various data sets - - From theinfo.org

Various data sets - From the World Bank

List of public data sets - From Quora

InfoVis Benchmarks Repository - From HCIL, University of Maryland

Network Intrusion Data - From the UMass Lowell Information Exploration Shootout

Internet Mapping Project - At Lumeta

AirData - From the EPA

UNIX System User Load Data - From Bob Lechner of U Mass, Lowell

Geneology Data - From the US Census Bureau

World Wine Statistics - From the Wine Institute

Knowledge Discovery in Databases Archive - At UC Irvine

National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference - From the USDA

Jeff Klingner's database collection - At Stanford

Time Series Data Mining Archive - At UCR

Machine Learning Data Repository - At UCI

Examples/Collections

The Map of the (Stock) Market - By Martin Wattenberg

The Secret Lives of Numbers - By Golan Levin

They Rule - By Joshua On

Copernica - By Martin Wattenberg

Mario Soup - By Ben Fry

Baby Name Wizard - By Martin Wattenberg

NIRVE project at NIST - Visualizing documents and search results

An Atlas of Cyberspaces - Collection of depictions of the web, internet and cyberspace

Gallery of Data Visualization - Best and worst of statistical graphics; much homage to Tufte

Visual Thesaurus - Interesting visualization of concepts in text

Vizworld - Graphics and visualization news/blog

Strange Maps - Interesting visualizations with maps

Nonlinear Magnification Homepage [link may be broken] - References and examples of fish-eye & focus + context views

Companies/Products

Oculus - Business Visualization Software

Discovery - Visualization Software from ILOG

Spotfire - Dynamic Query-driven Visualization Software

InfoZoom - HumanIT Software

Inxight - Text Extraction, Federated Search, and Visualization

Grokker - Enterprise Search Management

Tableau Software - Visual Thinking for Business Intelligence

Panopticon - Commercial Treemap Package

Hive Group - Commercial Honeycomb Package (a Treemap variant)

VisuaLinks - Commercial Graph-Based Analysis Tool

Analyst's Notebook - Commercial Visual Analytics Tool

Research Groups

Information Interfaces - Information Visualization and HCI @ Georgia Tech

LIVE - Laboratory for Information Visualization and Evaluation @ Virginia Tech

Imager Laboratory - Graphics, Visualization and HCI @ University of British Columbia

Visualization at WPI - Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Visualization at HCIL - Univ of Maryland HCI Lab Visualization Projects (past & current)

Pacific Northwest National Labs - Research program in Information Visualization

PARC UIR Information Visualization - Links to Xerox PARC InfoVis projects & info