Mapping Controversies: Resources

Advanced Visual system

Type: Software Application
Status: Commercial
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Description: Advanced Visual Systems provides industry-leading, interactive data visualization software and solutions that help business, scientific and...
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amCharts

Interactive flash map
Type: Software Application
Status: Shareware
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Description: This web-tool allows you to use Flash to create column, pie, 3D, and a great number of different chart types. They are fully configurable and...
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Anacubis

Type: Software Application
Status: Commercial
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Description: Investigation tool that displays data more than one dimension (see demo (http://www.i2.co.uk/products/demo/ ), with possibility to integrate map,...
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Autofocus

Type: Software Application
Status: Free Trial
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Description: Autofocus is a software that combines computational linguistics with visualisation to find information hidden in huge amounts of data. To see the...
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chromogram

Visualizing an individual's editing history in Wikipedia
Type: Map
Status: Public
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Description: A chromogram is a deceptively simple way to visualize long sequences of text. We used chromograms to analyze the behavior of Wikipedia users,...
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Croquet

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: Croquet is an open source software development environment for the creation and large-scale distributed deployment of multi-user virtual 3D...
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Datelens

A revolutionary scalable calendar interface
Type: Software Application
Status: Academic Use Only
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Description: Calendar applications for small handheld devices such as PDAs are growing in popularity. This led us to develop DateLens, a novel calendar...
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Eye-sys / Interactive Data Visualization

Type: Software Application
Status: Free Trial
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Description: IDV develops, markets, and licenses visualization software products and tools that deliver enterprise-level benefits to organizations engaged in...
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Flare

Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description: A great resource for Flash Actionscript developers. It provides an amazing set of pre-developed scripts to be used to produce interactive...
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GeoVista

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: GeoVISTA Studio is an open software development environment designed for geospatial data. Studio is a programming-free environment that allows...
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Google Fusion Tables

Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description: Google Fusion Tables is an experimental system for fusing data management and collaboration: merging multiple data sources, discussion of the data,...
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Graphopt

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: "This program optimizes graph layouts. That's pretty much it. Graphopt exists because of the inability of freely-available graph layout...
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GUESS **

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: GUESS is an exploratory data analysis and visualization tool for graphs and networks. The system contains a domain-specific embedded language...
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GVF - The graph visualizatio framework

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: The Graph Visualization Framework is a set of design patterns and approaches that can serve as an example for applications that either manipulate...
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Hypergraph

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: HyperGraph is an open source project which provides java code to work with hyperbolic geometry and especially with hyperbolic trees. It provides a...
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Hypergraph generator

Type: Map
Status: Other
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Description: The concept is simple: a tool that allows the quick creation of dynamic tree structures, which resemble natural rhizomes, and makes it freely...
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HyperTree

Type: Software Application
Status: Academic Use Only
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Description: HYPERTREE is a phylogenetic tree viewer, with a hyperbolic ('fish-eye') view and editing abilities that help in managing very large trees.
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ILog Discovery Preview

Type: Software Application
Status: Free Trial
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Description: ILOG Discovery Preview is an experimental visualization tool for analyzing data sets intuitively and communicating findings within an enterprise...
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ILog Jview

Type: Software Application
Status: Commercial
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Description: LOG JViews components provide custom, graphical components for high-end desktop, Ajax, and Eclipse displays. These components, delivered as...
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Improvise

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: Exploratory visualization based on multiple coordinated views is a rapidly growing area of information visualization. Ideally, users would be able...
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Info Vis Toolkit

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: The InfoVis Toolkit is a Interactive Graphics Toolkit written in Java to ease the development of Information Visualization applications and...
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Infoscope

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: InfoScope is an interactive visualization tool to access, explore, and communicate large or complex datasets. Two versions of the software...
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Infovis cyberifrastructure

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: Look at: Software packages and Open Source Toolkits. and here: http://vwtk.sourceforge.net/ The Information Visualization CyberInfrastructure...
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Interactive map

Type: Web-tool
Status: Freeware
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Description: Ammap is an interactive flash map creation software. Use this tool to show locations of your offices, routes of your journeys, create your...
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Java Graph **

Type: Software Application
Status: Free Trial
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Description: There is also a commecrcial version. "JGraph is the most powerful, easy-to-use, feature-rich and standards-compliant open source graph...
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Java Universal Network / Graph Framework

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: JUNG — the Java Universal Network/Graph Framework--is a software library that provides a common and extendible language for the modeling,...
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JTreeMap

Type: Software Application
Status: Free Trial
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Description: Exists also a commecrcial version. JTreeMap is a Java Swing component which reprensents hierarchical structure in a Treemap.
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Kartoo + kartoo geo + vizu

Type: Software Application
Status: Commercial
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Description: KartOO imagines new interfaces to navigate through information. Using pictorial displays, these tools allow you to understand large volumes of...
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Many eyes

for shared visualization and discovery
Type: Web-tool
Status: Freeware
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Description: "Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to...
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Many Eyes

Type: Web-tool
Status: Freeware
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Description: "Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to...
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Newsmap (Google feed)

Type: Website
Status: Other
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Description: Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization...
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OECD eXplorer

Online Tool for Analyzing Regional Statistics
Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description: The OECD, short for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), recently announced a new OECD...
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Omniscope

Visokio/ Interactive data visualisation for everyone
Type: Software Application
Status: Free Trial
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Description: Omniscope is powerful new visual way to integrate, analyse, filter and report on data. Omniscope puts you in direct visual control of large...
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Open XD

Based on IBM's visualization data explorer
Type: Software Application
Status: Free Trial
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Description: "OpenDX is a uniquely powerful, full-featured software package for the visualization of scientific, engineering and analytical data: Its open...
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OpenViz

Type: Software Application
Status: Free Trial
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Description: OpenViz visual analysis is changing the way that industry-leading software products are...
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Panopticon Explorer .NET

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: Panopticon Explorer .NET is an interactive visual data analysis application that can be used with Windows 200, XP or later. It is fully...
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Para View

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: ParaView, an application designed with the need to visualize large data sets in mind. The goals of the ParaView project include the...
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Parvis

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: Parvis is open source - If you like parvis and you want to improve it, just go ahead! Parvis is open source, and as long as you leave the GPL...
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Piccolo

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: The project is no longer being supported as of 2006, but if might be worth exploring. "Piccolo is a toolkit that supports the development of...
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Polaris

Type: Software Application
Status: Commercial
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Description: The Polaris project at Stanford University is no longer active. However, commercial products are now available by: Tableau Software,...
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Prefuse

Information visualization toolkit
Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: Prefuse supports a rich set of features for data modeling, visualization, and interaction. It provides optimized data structures for tables,...
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Prezi

Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description: A really interesting tool for mapping controversies. really easy to use and powerful. With the help of Prezi you can create maps of...
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Processing

Type: Other
Status: Public
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Description: Processing is a programming language, development environment, and online community that since 2001 has promoted software literacy within the...
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Sixthsense

Type: Other
Status: Commercial
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Description: Just as an example of how an equipped citizen will looks like in the future. 'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that...
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Socrata

Social Data Discovery of Open Government Data
Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: Socrata [socrata.com] features, next to a slick design, the hip trademarked slogan "Making Data Social", as it aims to make...
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SpaceTree

a novel node-link tree browser
Type: Software Application
Status: Academic Use Only
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Description: "SpaceTree is a novel tree browser that builds on the conventional layout node link diagrams along a single preferred direction. It adds...
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Spatial

Type: Software Application
Status: Commercial
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Description: Spatial is a high-end commercial 3D Visualization components to enable developers to easily build and integrate multi-format access and viewing...
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Spotfire

Type: Software Application
Status: Commercial
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Description: Spotfire is a company specializing in commercial visualization software for decision making. "Spotfire Guided Analytics are used across a...
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subsidyscope

Tracking TARP and US Federal Subsidies in the Economy
Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description: Subsidyscope, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts, is pulling together data on the financial institutions that are receiving...
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Swivel (DP)

Type: Map
Status: Other
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Description: Swivel lets you explore data and share your insights with others. Swivel has data about politics, economics, weather, sports, business and more.You...
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Tableau

Type: Software Application
Status: Commercial
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Description: Tableau is a visual analysis and reporting solution that allows people to explore and analyze databases and spreadsheets with simple drag and drop...
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The Phrase Net

New "Many Eyes" Visualization Technique
Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description: The social visualization website Many Eyes has just a released a new visualization technique, called Phrase Net. Phrase Net is based...
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The visible Archive

Mapping the National Archives of Australia Collection
Type: Web-tool
Status: Other
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Description: The Visible Archive is a research project on the visualisation of archival datasets, byMitchell Whitelaw, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty...
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The visualization toolkit

Type: Software Application
Status: Freeware
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Description: The Visualization ToolKit (VTK) is an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization...
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Timetric

Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description: The "Data Visualization 2.0" space happily occupied by services as Many...
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Tom Saywer Software

Type: Software Application
Status: Commercial
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Description: "Tom Sawyer Software is the premier provider of high performance graph visualization, layout, and analysis systems that enable you to see and...
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Track-n-graph

The easy way to track and graph information
Type: Web-tool
Status: Freeware
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Description: Track-n-Graph is an information tracking and graphing solution that allows you to track just about anything. Even if the template make this...
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TreeMap

Type: Software Application
Status: Academic Use Only
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Description: Treemap is a space-constrained visualization of hierarchical structures. It is very effective in showing attributes of leaf nodes using size and...
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