Creating interactive visualizations of large datasets using JavaScript

Crossfilter is a JavaScript library initially designed by Square to explore large multivariate datasets in a web browser. It basically allows you to create sorted indexes and feed them to a charting library like D3, and enable the user to filter by clicking and dragging, even when sifting through 200.000 rows in a 5MB file:… Continue reading Creating interactive visualizations of large datasets using JavaScript

Data + Design

A team of over 50 people have collaborated in Data+Design, a book about preparing and visualizing information. It’s a thorough but simple introduction to data collection and visualization, very thoroughly written and chock full of great advice.   It’s open-source too, published in its present form using O’Reilly’s Atlas e-publishing platform, which produces very clean,… Continue reading Data + Design

How to create an embeddable timeline chart

The other day, web developer friend asked me how to create and insert a timeline into WordPress. He actually wanted to put an interactive timeline with links, images and video on the homepage of a news site. I checked out several options out there and settled on TimelineJS. You can create timeline charts directly on… Continue reading How to create an embeddable timeline chart

amCharts, a charting library for creating interactive web charts

amCharts is a new JavaScript library for creating charts on the web. It handles many types of charts and it’s somewhat reminiscent of D3.js. Its most exciting feature is a live editor, which removes the grunt work related to your typical JavaScript charting library and enables you to design, change and export your chart to… Continue reading amCharts, a charting library for creating interactive web charts

How to build quick and free charts

Back in July 2013, the guys from released their Chartbuilder tool to the rest of the world. Quartz is a very successful online magazine. For their charting needs they use Chartbuilder, a web tool they built to streamline their cumbersome Excel-based process and convert it to a three step copy+paste, copy+paste, publish workflow. Author David Yanofksy:… Continue reading How to build quick and free charts