Open Exhibits is a multitouch open source architecture supported by the National Science Foundation. They provide various  modules and templates for displaying interactive information geared towards educators, museum exhibit designers, and other types of information visualization designers. You can download their core for free if you are a student, educator, or museum professional. Since Open Exhibits is based on [...]

I was recently asked to work on a little bit of code that would limit the height of a variable number of bar chart bars to a combined 100% of the total height of the graph. For example, if one bar was at 70%, another bar could only be incremented to 30%. In this example [...]

This is a cool Flash dictonary based on Princeton University’s opensource  WordNet. The developers describe it as a type of neural net, but I look at it as more of a word map where you can see words that are related to your original ‘seed’ word. The use of color, line thickness and distance, and [...]

Flare is an ActionScript library for creating visualizations that run in the Adobe Flash Player. From basic charts and graphs to complex interactive graphics, the toolkit supports data management, visual encoding, animation, and interaction techniques. Even better, flare features a modular design that lets developers create customized visualization techniques without having to reinvent the wheel. [...]

Labuat is a Spanish music band and they have one of the most beautiful Flash music visualizations I have seen in a while. It’s all based on a mouse trailer that is manipulated by the song and controlled by your mouse. The way that everything syncs so smoothly and seamlessly is really impressive. I like [...]

Developed at Stanford, Protovis is an SVG-powered data visualization toolkit for web browsers. Their example page shows you some of the visualizations that Protovis can manage. I especially appreciate the inclusion of Tufte’s sparklines. Even though it’s in the early stages of development, with support for only Firefox 3, Chrome and Safari 4, it’s still [...]