Resources

ArcGIS Explorer Online

Upload, visualise and share your data using ESRI’s online version of ArcGIS Explorer.

ArcGIS My Map

Upload, visualise and share your data using ESRI’s free online map creator.

BatchGeo

Upload tab-delimited or spreadsheet data to visualise on a map.

d3.js

D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a Document Object Model (DOM), and then apply data-driven transformations to the document. As a trivial example, you can use D3 to generate a basic HTML table from an array of numbers. Or, use the same data to create an interactive SVG bar chart with smooth transitions and interaction.

DataWrangler

Wrangler is an interactive tool for data cleaning and transformation. Spend less time formatting and more time analysing your data.

Gephi

Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs.

Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Gephi is open-source and free.

GeoCommons

GeoCommons is the public community of GeoIQ users who are building an open repository of data and maps for the world. The GeoIQ platform includes a large number of features that empower you to easily access, visualise and analyse your data.

Google Fusion Tables (Beta)

Google Fusion Tables allows users to:

• Upload small or large data sets from spreadsheets or CSV files.
• Visualise your data on maps, timelines and charts.
• Pick who can access your data; hide parts of your data if needed.
• Merge data from multiple tables.
• Discuss your data with others. Track changes and discussions.

Google Refine

Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase.

Koordinates

Koordinates allows you to search, sort, bookmark and share geographic data sets. Download in the the format, projection and area you need, connect with web services using industry standard services or developer friendly APIs, or explore data within the browser. Koordinates aims to release the power of geographic data to all users.

OpenHeatMap

Upload a excel, CSV file or Google Doc and create a map.

OpenLayers

OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world.

OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth.

Protovis

Protovis composes custom views of data with simple marks such as bars and dots. Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to simplify construction.

Tableau Public

Tableau Public is a free service that lets anyone publish interactive data to the web. Once on the web, anyone can interact with the data, download it, or create their own visualizations of it. No programming skills are required.

TimeFlow

TimeFlow Analytical Timeline is a visualization tool for temporal data. The current release is “alpha” software — a very early version that may have bugs and glitches.

VIDI

VIDI is a suite of powerful intuitive Drupal data-visualization modules for anyone to use on any standard set of data ranging from government databases to demographics and statistics