visualization

What is simplest way to draw 3d plot (with 30000 points) in WinForms or WPF?

What is simplest way to draw 3d plot in WinForms or WPF? I have an array with 30000 points (from external 3D Scanner). Now I need to connect this points and make something as 3D Picture (topography). Any suggestions? ...

How can I configure the coloring of a column chart?

I'm looking for a way to customize a column chart. Open office and Excel produce the following chart for a column with values 1, 2, 3, 3, 2. But, I'd like to generate a chart with the following properties. The chart should have five bars. All bars must be of the same height. The chart should color bars based on their values. In this ex...

Data visualization: Bubble charts, Venn diagrams, and tag clouds (oh my!)

Suppose I have a large list of objects (thousands or tens of thousands), each of which is tagged with a handful of tags. There are dozens or hundreds of possible tags and their usage follows a typical power law: some tags are used extremely often but most are rare. All but the most frequent couple dozen tags could typically be ignored, i...

Charting Software for Performance Stats

I'm looking for a charting library similar to amCharts that allows you to create graphs with a timeline, e.g: http://www.amcharts.com/stock/ It should also allow to you to select a range within the chart and zoom in to see further specifics. The purpose of this is for visualizing performance related information such as i/o stats etc.....

jquery and google table visualization

Hi There, I am hoping that there is someone that can help me. I am using the google.code visualization tools and jquery on the same page. I am calling the $(document).ready function on the document but suspect the problem lies with calling the google.setOnLoadCallback(drawVisualization); function. Which still loads after the document.r...

Website landing page. Simplicity vs Comprehensive?

I was wondering, should a website landing page be simple or comprehensive? I'm sure there are benefits for both, I personally like comprehensive... But i noticed my page now resembles Google reader, in that the frame of the site loads and then starts loading all the pictures etc.... My question is, is it appropriate to have a landing p...

Visualize data and clustering

Hi, i am currently writing a python script to find the similarity between documents.I have already calculated the similarities score for each document pairs and store them in dictionaries. It looks something like this: {(8328, 8327): 1.0, (8313, 8306): 0.12405229825691289, (8329, 8328): 1.0, (8322, 8321): 0.99999999999999989, (8328, 832...

Wrapping processing.js in Google Web Toolkit

Hi All, I was wondering whether anyone has managed to wrap John Resig's processing.js library in Google Web Toolkit (maybe in combination with GWT Canvas) or knows of any resources or sample code out on the web. Processing.js is extremely powerful for generating bespoke data visualisations, custom animations etc (I am aware of the Googl...

Is there a ManyEyes API?

I can't find one. But I find it hard to believe they've built the service without an API. Can it be true? If so, can anyone suggest an alternative, other than the Google Charts API? Thanks! ...

Visualizing Textual Data: Members of Congress and their affiliations

I am having a hard time getting started with some way to visualize some data consisting largely of congressional members and their political affiliations. As such it is mostly text data and doesn't lend itself immediately to something like ManyEyes, Google Charts etc. More to the point, I have spreadsheets of data on senators and repres...

Visualize and clustering

Earlier on i post a question about visualization and clustering. I guess my question was not quite clear enough so I post it again. I hope i make a better explanation this time . I also apologize for not "accept answer" for my old questions. I didn't know i can do that until a guy point it out. I will definitely do it from now on. Oka...

Coloring a map according to mapped database values

Question: On http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10150007 one can see a map of european countries colored according to state debt/deficit. Now I would have already found it useful several times if I was able to do such a thing myself, for example to visualize regional sales data. Does anybody know: Is there any (OpenSource) tool with which I ca...

Error caused by string being too big when passed to Google Visualization API

I am trying to create a WordCloud through the Google Visualization API. You have to create a google.visualization.DataTable and add the string to a cell in the table. I basically copied the example linked above, and passed in a simple string of a few words (@note.articletext), and the WordCloud worked fine. <script type="text/javasc...

Is there a Javascript library to draw electrical circuit diagrams?

I'm looking for an open-source Javascript library that can draw electrical/electronics circuit diagrams in a modern (HTML5) browser - is there such a thing? It should have typical circuit elements like resistors, voltage and current sources, capacitors, etc. Thanks in advance for any help. ...

is there an api for something like this?

i have seen this and i wanted to know if there is any open source web based thing, which has similar functionality. cool would be a JS api/library :-) thanks in advice UPDATE sorry for that, didn't know that German sites are so awful to you :-D it's about a tool where you can place peaces of furniture into a taken photo, as if it wou...

Data visualization / analytics / dashboard in ASP.NET (NOT Google analytics integration)

I need to create an ASP.NET site which can display graphs, charts, statistics for a dashboard type application pulling data from a backend data source. I am trying to locate either: (a) open-source modules that I can use / build up on (b) tutorials which teach the above (c) existing modules (preferably low-cost) that work well. I d...

Audio waveform visualisation in Python/Django

I've looked around Stack Overflow for an answer to this, but nowhere seems to give the correct answer or direction... My project will allow a user to upload a WAV, which ultimately will be converted to a low quality MP3 using FFmpeg on the server and it'll all be stored and served on Amazon S3. The next obstacle is working out how to ex...

Scala, Charts and Google Visualisation API

Hi Guys, Those anyone know of a Scala Library for Graphs / Charts or an implementation of the Google Visualisation API. Cheers ...

Reliable / Popular data visualization toolkit for the web

Hi, I'm looking for a reliable toolkit in any web-neutral[A] language, actively maintained / developed, stable that allows me to build graphs, charts, display data dynamically, allow drag-n-drop of datasets and refreshes automatically. Carlos Scheidegger recommended - http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ which looks great! But I'm looking...

Techniques for visualising change over time in graphs

I'm looking to display a graph (network diagram, not a chart) and show its changes over time. Is there a standard or best way to do this? I'm looking for an overview of the general layout decisions involved, i.e. a list of options and trade-offs to be made, and best-practice guidelines where these exist. Thanks. ...