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Cool Creative Communications: Dazzling Data VisualizationData Visualization ToolsData Visualization ToolsBelow is a list of data visualization tools that you may utilize as you create your data visualization. If you know of other free data visualization tools to add to this list, please feel free to contact me. Tools are listed in alphabetic order. Geographic Information System (GIS)/Mapping ToolseSpatial - eSpatial online mapping software lets you to take business data from Excel spreadsheets and?transform it into eye-catching, informative visualizations. Software plots any location that can be found in Google Maps. You'll be able to plot spreadsheet data and create heat maps, territory maps, analyze data, collaborate on data, or customize and style maps to share and print.?NOTE: Free account limits up to 250 points of data per day. OpenHeatMap - Heat Map is an online tool in which you can upload your spreadsheet to create an interactive online map.?OpenLayers - (Program Download)OpenLayers?is an?open source?JavaScript?library for displaying map data in web browsers. It provides an?API?for building rich web-based geographic applications similar to?Google Maps?and?Bing Maps.?Quantum GIS (QGIS) - (Program Download)QGIS is a free, open source geographic information system. You'll be able to create, edit, visualize, analyze, and publish geospatial information on Windows, Mac, Linux, and BSD.?InfographicsCanva – new project comes with a template for the project you choose to work on. With the dimensions set, you can focus your attention on creating designs. While they don't have a monthly subscription, you can pay for different image assets individually. To learn how to use this tool, you can visit the tutorials: Easel.ly – If you're looking to design an infographic for free, this program will work well. However, it may lack some of the variety found in other infographic tools. They have a small number of visual themes to choose from, but can be a very easy-to-use resource. Infogr.am – Infogr.am lets you illustrate data with 30 different types of charts to select. Additionally, you can utilize built-in spreadsheets or import your own. While you are able to use the site for free, there are a number of limitations including download options. Piktochart – has a limited selection of free templates you can access. However, the site has themes and templates with high design quality. The site is fairly intuitive to use. You can even embed videos from YouTube or Vimeo in your design as well.Visme - allows you to create interactive presentations, infographics, and other engaging content. The site offers both free and paid versions. If you use the free version, you're limited to 3 projects. When you publish under the free version, it will include the Visme logo. Free accounts have limited access to charts and infographic widgets.Visualization Apps or ProgramsChartbuilder – builder is an open source chart-creation tool that gives you an opportunity to create simple charts and "graphics-desk" quality. Visit: and follow the simple steps. You’ll be able to export your chart afterwards. DataHero – is self-service cloud program that provides data analysis with intuitive design. The service suggests charts and drag-and-drop chart creation to make it easy to provide context to your data and communicate them with dashboards.Datawrapper – This is a quick and easy way to create Web charts. Add data by copying and pasting from a spreadsheet or uploading a CSV file, (remove formatting: commas, percent signs and so on). Select from one of five chart types, type in a title and click publish. Google Fusion Tables - program helps you turn data into a chart or map. You can upload a file in several different formats and then choose how to display it: table, map, heatmap, line chart, bar graph, pie chart, scatter plot, timeline, storyline or motion (animation over time). It's somewhat customizable, allowing you to change map icons and style info windows.Jolicharts – Jolicharts is a service that combines presentation software with data analysis. Within the program you’ll connect to data sources and analyze them so that they could be a part of your data slideshow. These slide shows are published online that can be shared. Plot.ly – is a data visualization cloud service that also performs statistical analysis not requiring a desktop download. The program allows for collaboration. Additionally, you maintain ownership of the data and can control privacy. Qlik Sense Desktop – (Program Download)Qlik Sense Desktop allows you to create interactive data visualizations from data you keep on your own system. That's useful if you want to get insights from your own data, but less so if you want to share your work with others in your institution. However, Qlik Cloud allows you to privately share the data visuals with up to 5 other users who don't need Qlik Sense installed.Raw Graphs – Raw Graphs is an open web app to create custom vector-based visualizations. Its simple interface allows you to copy and paste your data, select from a range of visual models, fine tune the visualization created, and export it. Tableau Public – (Program Download)This tool can turn data into any number of visualizations, from simple to complex. You can drag and drop fields onto the work area and ask the software to suggest a visualization type, then customize everything from labels and tool tips to size, interactive filters and legend display. There are a number of training videos available on their website and YouTube.Vida.io – (Download)Vida.io is a data visualization service offering a front end for both Google's Charts Visualization API and the JavaScript library D3.js, along with free public hosting for the graphics you create. The Google Charts portion of the service visualization types including line charts, bar charts, scatter plots and maps. The interface is reasonably intuitive, allowing for simple customizing of title, axes and colors. VIDI – VIDI is a tool for the Drupal CMS, graphics created by the site's visualization wizard can be used on any HTML page. You can upload your data, select a visualization type, do a little customization, and your chart, timeline or map is ready to use via auto-generated iframe embed code. The website has a VIDI video tutorial series on its website explaining how to use it. Adobe Flash required. Watson Analytics – Watson Analytics brings natural language understanding to data work. That means you don't need to structure a proper query in some specialized language to find relationships and patterns in your data; likewise, there's no need for knowledge of statistics to decide what results are significant. Instead, the system does all that in the background for you.Weave - 2 is an open source interactive visualization and analysis platform. Program is available with CSS, Javascript, or HTML coding. You may be able to download the Weave Server for additional access. Zoho Reports – of the more traditional corporate-focused business analytics offerings in this group, Zoho Reports can take data from various file formats or directly from a database and turn it into charts, tables and pivot tables -- formats familiar to most spreadsheet users.Word CloudsIBM Word-Cloud Generator – If you're looking for easy desktop software dedicated to creating a Word Cloud, IBM's free Word-Cloud desktop application is available. Other tools mentioned previous can do that as well. Wordle - Wordle is a tool to generate “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to your own desktop to use as you wish. ................
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