{"id":198,"date":"2011-04-22T12:28:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T17:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2011-04-22T12:28:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T17:28:41","slug":"visualization-and-data-topics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Visualization and Data Topics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topics near and dear to my heart, largely because they keep me employed, absolutely include all things Data related.  In particular, lately, Data Visualization has been a hot topic.  We got to attend a presentation today by <a href=\"http:\/\/domino.research.ibm.com\/cambridge\/research.nsf\/pages\/frank_van_ham.html\">Frank van Ham<\/a> about some IBM offerings in the Data Visualization space.<\/p>\n<p>IBM has some pretty cool things going on. \u00c2\u00a0Sadly for us tinkerers, a lot of their cool stuff is either tied to expensive proprietary software, or simply way too complicated to just play around in your free hours with a random data set and a laptop. \u00c2\u00a0Fortunately, Frank reminded me that there are a lot of tools out there, that can let you do just that sort of playing, and often with a tiny footprint and for free. \u00c2\u00a0IBM, for example, runs <a href=\"http:\/\/www-958.ibm.com\/software\/data\/cognos\/manyeyes\/\">Many Eyes<\/a>, which is apparently now bearing their Cognos brand, and which allows you to play with a ton of cool visualizations without too much more than a web browser.<\/p>\n<p>Many Eyes isn&#8217;t alone, though&#8230; right now I&#8217;ve got over a hundred decent sites <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/chipmonkey\/visualization\">tagged &#8220;visualization&#8221;<\/a> over at <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/\">del.icio.us<\/a>.  Many Eyes is one of them; <a href=\"http:\/\/vis.stanford.edu\/protovis\/\">Protovis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/processingjs.org\/\">Processing.js<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/flare.prefuse.org\/\">Flare<\/a>, and many others provide a rich playing field for starting with visualization.  Some of these are tools, others are examples, but there&#8217;s plenty to look through so you can gain inspiration or code snippets.<\/p>\n<p>Enoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics near and dear to my heart, largely because they keep me employed, absolutely include all things Data related. In particular, lately, Data Visualization has been a hot topic. We got to attend a presentation today by Frank&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/?p=198\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happytechnologist","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}