Data Visualization Toolkits
There are quite a few great platforms for developing visualization solutions. Here’s a quick roundup that includes basic highlights and decriptions from the respective websites and a synopsis of the delivery and development technologies supported.
Prefuse
www.prefuse.org
Prefuse is an extensible software framework for helping software developers create interactive information visualization applications using the Java programming language.
Highlights:
- Data structures that support attributes, indexing and queries
- Layout and animation components
- Common controls for interactive interfaces
- Transformations for panning and zooming
- Dynamic queries
- Physics engine
- Multiple view displays
- SQL-like expression language for queries
- Standalone applications
Delivery:
- Visual components
- Web applets
- Java framework
- Swing
- Applets
Processing
www.processing.org
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions.
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