1. StatPlanet
StatPlanet is an easy-to-use, interactive data visualization and mapping software. StatPlanet can be used to create maps, dashboards, charts, and graphs to bring your data to life. In addition to being browser-based, StatPlanet also offers the following downloads for use offline: StatPlanet Map Maker to create fully customizable interactive maps and graphs with the ability to publish them online, StatPlanet World Database to visually explore over 250 development indicators to aid in the understanding of the world, and the Graph Maker to create interactive graphs and charts.
2. Tableau Public
Tableau Public is the free version of Tableau, a commercial data visualization software that enables you to create interactive charts, graphs, maps, and dashboards. The software saves your work on the Tableau Public web servers; as a result, nothing is saved on your computer and your work is accessible for anyone to interact with, download, or modify. The program creates stunning visualizations that can enliven your data.
3. Diagramly
Diagramly is an online drawing application that can be used to visualize relationships, organization charts, networks, database schema, and other information. It can also be used to depict “telecommunication networks, workflows, flowcharts, map overlay and GIS, electronic circuits, social network diagrams,” business process management (BPM), business process modeling notation (BPMN), and UML. Once created, the diagrams can be saved as XML, PNG, JPG, or SVG.
4. Hohli
Hohli is an online charts builder which allows you to create line charts, bar charts, pie charts, venn diagrams, scatter plots, and radar charts for free without needing to download any software. Charts can be horizontal, vertical, or square, and can also be created in different sizes.
5. GapminderWorld
Gapminder World is a dynamic “web-service displaying time series of development statistics for all countries.” It is an interactive software that allows the user to communicate, through animated graphics, with a plethora of statistics and see the relation between them, from various economic indicators to infrastructure development, from education statistics to climate and health conditions. Gapminder Desktop can be downloaded to use the service offline.
6. Wordle
Wordle is an online software for creating word clouds from any text the user wishes – “the clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.” To make the visualizations appealing, users have the ability to modify their “clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.”
7. Open Heat Map
Open Heat Map is an incredible tool created by Peter Warden that lets you create your own heat maps in literally seconds with either an Excel spreadsheet or a Google Docs spreadsheet. You can use the maps to illustrate patterns, highlight intensity levels, showcase regional differences, and much more.
8. NewRadial
NewRadial is a program created specifically for the visualization of humanities data. Using this software, users can create nodes, create and edit commentary for a group of related nodes, edit connecting information as well as search results.
9. Dipity
Dipity is a free online digital timeline website that allows users to create free interactive timelines online. With Dipity, “users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps.” Dipity is currently used by “newspapers, journalists, celebrities, government organizations, politicians, financial institutions, community managers, museums, universities, teachers, students, non-profits and bloggers.”
10. GeoCommons
GeoCommons is an online data visualization site that allows users to create and share geographic data, maps, and analysis. Users can “easily create rich interactive visualizations to solve problems without any experience using traditional mapping tools.” In additions, GeoCommons enables users to “visualize data from numerous sources to identify trends that were previously unseen,” and view their data “with real-time social data and the over 50,000 open-source data sets in GeoCommons.”
11. Chartle
Chartle is a free online data visualization service that offers “simplicity, ubiquity, and interactivity,” in the creation of your charts and their publication online. Chartle offers users a wide range of data visualization options; users can create bar charts, column charts, pie charts, line charts, area charts, scatter plots, Venn diagrams, radar charts, organization charts, data tables, automated timelines, motion charts, gauges, and a wide variety of maps including simple maps, US and world intensity maps, address maps, and latitude/longitude maps.
12. Prefuse
Prefuse is a visualization toolkit that contains “a set of software tools for creating rich interactive data visualizations.” In addition to offering features for data modeling, visualization, and interaction, Prefuse also “provides optimized data structures for tables, graphs, and trees, a host of layout and visual encoding techniques, and support for animation, dynamic queries, integrated search, and database connectivity.”
13. Many Eyes
Many Eyes is a set of free data visualization tools provided by IBM. The site allows users to upload their data and produce visualizations that others can view and comment on. Users have a wide range of visualization options available – network diagrams, scatter plots, matrix charts, bar charts, histograms, bubble charts, line graphs, stack graphs, pie charts, tree maps, word trees, tag clouds, word cloud generator, as well as the maps of the world and US.
14. flare
“Flare is an ActionScript library for creating visualizations that run in the Adobe Flash Player. From basic charts and graphs to complex interactive graphics, the toolkit supports data management, visual encoding, animation, and interaction techniques. Additionally, flare features a modular design that lets developers create customized visualization techniques.”
15. TagCrowd
TagCrowd is a web application for creating word clouds, also known as text clouds or tag clouds. A word cloud essentially is an informative image that is used to visualize word frequencies in any text. Users can employ TagCrowd in many instances including creation of topic summaries for written works, for visual analysis of qualitative data, data mining, and visual poetry.
16. Google Public Data Explorer
The Google Public Data Explorer is an online visualization tool that enables users to easily explore and visualize large data sets. Google’s motion charts make it very easy to see and understand the changes as they have happened. The Explorer can be used by anyone who wishes to “create visualizations of public data, link to them, or embed them in their own webpages.” Additionally, “embedded charts and links can update automatically,” thereby providing the user with the ability to always share the latest available data.
17. timetoast
Timetoast is an online application that allows users to create free interactive timelines which can be shared anywhere on the web.
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