visualization Archives

Developer Tools

Visualizing Data with Vega-Lite

Have you ever wanted to chart data without coercing it into a spreadsheet? Or interact with multiple visualizations at once? Try Vega-Lite.

Web Apps

Using D3 with React and TypeScript

How can we utilize D3 in a meaningful way while simultaneously breaking up our elements into individual components for React?

Developer Tools

Visualizations: Making Your Data Make Sense [w/Video]

Choosing our data visualizations carefully can make the difference between fruitless data manipulation and a groundbreaking discovery.

Web Apps

Creating Charts with Rickshaw.js

Rickshaw.js is an open source JavaScript charting framework built on top of D3.js. It specializes in creating timeseries graphs.

Project & Team Management

Visualizing Project Scale, Risk, and Options

We discuss scale, risk, and alternatives continually throughout a project. Having a visual representation of the conversation points can be very useful.

Software Science

Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms

Developers take garbage collection for granted, but it's hard to see how it works. Watch 5 different GC algorithm visualizations.

Web Apps

Charting Data with jqPlot

jqPlot is a jQuery plugin that supports drawing line, bar and pie charts with many customizable features.

Web Apps

Saving Browser-based SVGs as Images

SVG vector images drawn in the browser can be rasterized as PNG images using JavaScript, the canvas element, and a couple of data URIs.

Web Apps

D3 is for Drawing – JavaScript Data Visualization with D3.js

D3.js is an excellent JavaScript data visualization library that works closely with in-browser SVG capabilities.

Developer Tools

Making Diagrams with graphviz

graphviz is a great tool for creating quick diagrams. It can automatically create diagrams from its simple markup language, DOT.

UX/Design Tools

Puppet + Gephi: Visualizing Infrastructure as Code

Gephi can be used to effectively explore Puppet resource dependency chains by visualizing a graph of relationships created by Puppet in the DOT language.

jRuby

Easy Data Visualization with JFreeChart

The next time you’re looking to visualize data in your JRuby or Java application, don’t overlook JFreeChart.