Archive for ‘Software’ Category
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This is a guest review by Peter Robinet of Bubble Foundry, a web design company that specializes in building websites for Web startups. What It Is RoamBi is a free…
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Python is a powerful programming language that's good for a lot of things. I mainly use it for data scraping, parsing, munging, etc, and more recently, for the Web, and…
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As we've seen, javascript is growing into a viable solution for visualization on the Web. John Resig ported Processing to javascript about a year ago and we saw some projects…
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Axiis, an open source data visualization framework in Flex, was released a few days ago under an MIT license. I haven't done much in Flex, but from what I hear,…
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In the promotion of its speedy javascript, Google announces the Chrome Experiment. As part of the Experiment, design group Use All Five give us Small Talk, which is a social…
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This is a guest post from Elad Israeli and Roni Floman of SiSense, which specializes in easy-to-use business intelligence. Pundits joke that Google Adwords is driving Microsoft Excel sales. Two…
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Processing 1.0 was released yesterday and it "only took 162 attempts." I strongly encourage you to check it out - especially if you've never heard of it. Even if you're…
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Vertigo put together a great collection of 672 Obama headlines using Silverlight's deep zoom capabilities. The cool thing here isn't so much the number of headlines or the mosaic of…
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One of the most frequent questions I get is, "What software do you use to visualize data?" A lot of people are excited to play with their data, but don't…
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Mashups have been around for a while now, but for the most part have required at least a little bit of web development. Maybe it's a line of javascript or…
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A new version of Flare, the data visualization toolkit for Actionscript (which means it runs in Flash), was just released yesterday with a number of major improvements from the previous…
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See what people are tweeting around the world 24/7. What are you doing right now?
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For those who want more out of the commonly-used mapping APIs from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc, but don't want to get too heavy on the programming, Mapstraction is for you.…
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The Internet has made it easier to donate to presidential campaigns, so much so that the Federal Election Commission has had a hard time keeping up with the seemingly sudden…
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In elementary school through high school, I always used Microsoft Excel for my charts and graphs (and use it to clean data every now and then). In undergrad, I learned…
Javascript InfoVis Toolkit – New Version Released
Open Source Data Visualization Framework – Axiis
Social Weather Mapping From Google Chrome Experiment
Using Visualization to Optimize Adwords: Time Series Visuals vs the Pivot Table
672 Obama Headlines – Both Browsable and Readable
New Version of Flare Visualization Toolkit Released
Watching Our Twitter World – twittervision Redux
Map With All the Common APIs at Once – Mapstraction
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