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| general systems |
Tableau ggplot2 ImageVis3D |
| processing |
Processing main
page Learning Processing OpenProcessing.org Examples by Ben Fry Using Processing in Eclipse |
| vtk |
VTK download page ParaView VisTrails |
| other vis toolkits |
D3 Protovis Piccolo 75+ Tools JIT: JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit Improvise |
| dimensionality reduction |
R
ggobi DR and statistical graphics package (windows, mac, linux) DimStiller, java DR framework includes MDS, PCA, and dimensionality estimators Glimmer MDS, C++. GPU version requires recent nVidia graphics card, CPU version runs anywhere Isomap matlab LLE matlab SOM |
| graph drawing |
Gephi
interactive viewing/filtering, forcedirected and multilevel
layouts, metrics Jung java-based library Tulip handles large data yfiles (evaluation version available) AiSee (noncommercial/trial version available) Tom Sawyer commercial, trial available H3, 3D hyperbolic graphs through spanning trees, free for noncommercial use |
| recommendations |
from Datavisualization.ch |
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ChartsNThings, The NYTimes Graphics Dept DataBlog, The Guardian Newspaper Fell In Love With Data, Enrico Bertini Visual Business Intelligence, Stephen Few Eager Eyes, Robert Kosara infovis wiki, Vienna infovis.net, Juan C. Durstler Statistical Graphics, Martin Theus Functional Color, Maureen Stone Well-Formed Data, Moritz Stefaner Flowing Data, Nathan Yau information aesthetics, Andrew Vande Moere visual complexity, Manuel Lima Ask ET, Edward Tufte Information Wants to be Seen, TJ Jankun-Kelly |