Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your readers effectively, sometimes you need more than just a simple pie chart of your results. In fact, there are much better, profound, creative and absolutely fascinating ways to visualize data. Many of them might become ubiquitous in the next few years.
What makes something “Information Visualization?” Is it just visual titillation? Or is it a tool that interprets, analyzes, and facilitates deeper understanding of data?
Open source graph visualization software. Takes descriptions of graphs in a simple text language, makes diagrams formatted as images, SVG for web, PS for PDF, GXL (XML dialect), and more.
Exemplary sites covered here include: WikiViz, FreeMind, Visualizious, Tree Radial Balloon Layout, Comment Flow, OneWord, Del.icio.us Network Explorer, Bubbl.us, ClusterBall, and data visualization of a social network.