Web visualisations for data?

Question

I would like to display a bunch of data in a meaningful way through visualizations on a site.

I have been experimenting with RaphaelJS library, but performance on IE8 is terrible, and HTML5 canvas is still not widely supported.

So I'm left with Flash and any existing libraries.

On the flash side there seem to be many, but because of this I am a bit lost and don't have the possibility to experiment with each one.

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( I will list any libraries that people have pointed out here. )

Flash / Flex:

• Flare
• Axiis
• BirdEye
• Flex Charting Components
• Core Components/Charting

• IBM ILOG Elixir

  Thanks ZackBeNimble (link to answer)

Javascript:

• Google Visualizations API Gallery

  Thanks Justin Johnson (link to answer)

• Google ExplorerCanvas (HTML5 Canvas for IE)

  Thanks Craig Stuntz (link to answer)

• ProcessingJS

  Thanks Bobby (link to answer)

Java:

• IBM's many-eyes.com

  Thanks Richard Inglis (link to answer)

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Help would be very much appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

You may want to check out Google Visualizations API Gallery (which are different from its graphing API). It's a collection of different, cross-browser visualizations. Some are in flash, others render static images. Also, some integrate with GWT.

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