resources: tools

Polymaps

A JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers. By Stamen Design and SimpleGeo.

HumbleFinance is an HTML5 data visualization tool written as a demonstration of interactive graphing in HTML5. The tool is written entirely in JavaScript, using the Prototype and Flotr libraries. It can be used to display any two 2-D data sets of real numerical data which share an axis.

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MapTogether

The MapTogether project provides free map-related training and tools for community and nonprofit groups around the world. Their resources include software, datasets, online mapping services, documentation, and training resources.

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Tableau Public

A Windows desktop application for easy data visualization and publication on the web.

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Protovis

"A graphical approach to visualization" which uses Javascript and SVG for web-native data visualizations. By Mike Bostock and Jeffrey Heer.

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DataMasher

Tool for mashing up datasets from the U.S. government to see how states compare on important issues.

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GovFresh

A live feed of official news from U.S. Government Twitter, YouTube, RSS, Facebook, Flickr accounts and more.

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Circos

A GPL-licensed visualization tool that can help show relationships in data.

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CloudMade

CloudMade provides a variety of resources to help developers build location-based apps using data from <a href="http://datamob.org/datasets/show/open-street-map">OpenStreetMap</a>, including geocoding services and a mapping API with wrappers for Ruby, Python, and Java.

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Google App Engine

The Google App Engine allows developers to run Python applications on Google infrastructure. Accounts are free up to monthly bandwidth and storage limits and users can pay for resources they use past those limits.

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DBSlayer

A lightweight database abstraction layer suitable for high-load websites where you need the scalable advantages of connection pooling. Written in C for speed, DBSlayer talks to clients via JSON over HTTP, meaning it's simple to monitor and can swiftly interoperate with any web framework you choose.

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Google Chart API

Dynamically generate chart images. See a lovely example on the <a href="http://datamob.org/about">Datamob about page</a>.

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AJAX API Playground

Sandbox for 8 Google JavaScript APIs (Maps, Search, Feeds, Calendar, Visualization, Language, Blogger, Libraries and Earth). Play with 170 samples and save or export your own work.

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Freebase Acre

Easily build JavaScript web apps that run on <a href="http://datamob.org/interfaces/show/freebase">Freebase</a> data using this integrated app development and hosting platform. Check out the <a href="http://datamob.org/datasets/show/freebase-api">Freebase API</a> and <a href="http://datamob.org/datasets/show/freebase-data-dumps">Data Dumps</a>.

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Harvestman Crawler

Python-based web crawler that can be used to download files from websites according to a number of customized rules and constraints.

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Datahub

Python-based tool that allows for faster downloading, parsing, loading and visualization of data.

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Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Repository of public data sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-based applications. Available data ranges from Human Genome data from <a href="http://datamob.org/datasets/show/ensembl-genome-data">Ensembl</a> to a variety of <a href="http://datamob.org/datasets/show/u-s-census-data">U.S. Census</a> data.

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GeoCommons

Hub for geographical data and map-making.

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Cytoscape

Open source bioinformatics software platform for visualizing molecular interaction networks or network graphs of any kind involving nodes and edges (e.g., social networks).

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The New York Times Visualization Lab

Create visualizations of data and information presented by the New York Times using the "Many Eyes" technology from IBM Research.

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Modest Maps

Display and interaction library for tile-based maps in Flash and Python.

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Mesh Processing Library

Library for creating Voronoi, Delaunay and Convex Hull diagrams in Processing. By Lee Byron.

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Mapstraction

Mapstraction provides a common API for various JavaScript mapping APIs, allowing developers to easily change the mapping provider of their application.

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