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Thursday, July 02, 2009
Simpler Data Visualization - Kate Greene, Technology Review
There are many ways to slice and dice data to better understand what it means. Software like Microsoft's Excel offers a simple way to create charts and graphs, while more complex applications, such as IBM's Many Eyes, provide more interesting ways to visualize more complex data. Specialized programming languages can do more by tweaking the design of visualizations. But these languages tend to be difficult for non-experts to use. Now researchers at Stanford are offering a suite of tools called Protovis that streamline the process of building data visualizations.
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