05 Jun 2013
Data visualization is the study of the visual representation of data, meaning “information that has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units of information”.
Data Visualization Tools can help you easily create infographics, charts, graphs, interactive data visualizations, and motion graphics.
This is not a list of everything out there, but instead a thoughtfully curated selection of best tools that will make your life easier creating meaningful and beautiful data visualizations (charts, graphs or maps).
From simple charts to complex maps and infographics, these 50+ tools have everything you need to bring your data to life.
A JavaScript Library for Time Series Visualization: Cubism.js
Create Animated Visualisations with Flot jQuery plugin
Easily Work with Vector Graphics on the Web: Raphael JS
Free HTML5 and JavaScript Charts: RGraph
Integrate / Develop Interactive Maps within Your Site: Modest Maps
Charts With A Single Line Of Ruby: Chartkick
Standalone Charting Library With HTML5 Canvas: Chart.js
A jQuery Component For Gantt Charts & Task Trees: Teamwork Gantt
JavaScript Charts With SVG: xCharts
A JavaScript Sparklines Library: Sparky
Wordle-Like Word Clouds With JavaScript: D3-Cloud
Easily Embed Interactive Networks in your Website: Cytoscape Web
Open Source JavaScript Library to Draw Graphs: SigmaJS
Make Pretty Graphs with JavaScript: TufteGraph
SVG Graphics Library For JavaScript: jsDraw2DX
Gantt Charts With PHP – Gantti
Interactive & Re-Usable Charts With D3.js: NVD3.js
A JavaScript Library For Displaying Timeline Of Events: Chronoline.js
Convert your HTML Data Tables into Fancy Highcharts Graphs: jQuery HighchartsTable
Web Widget for Plotting Time Series: Timeplot
Pretty Time-series Line Graphs: Morris JS
A Library For Interactive HTML5 Visualizations: Envision.js
Open Source HTML5 Charts & Graphs: Flotr2
A JavaScript Toolkit For Interactive & Real-Time Graphs: Rickshaw
Free JavaScript Charting Library: Elycharts
Free JavaScript Diagramming Library: JointJS
MooTools Library to Draw Bubble Diagrams/Charts With Canvas: Moochart
Graphing library for MooTools: MilkChart
Wheel-Like Data Visualization With MooWheel
A Simple to use JavaScript Graphing Library: Scheming Cow graphics
Create Beautiful Charts using Javascript and Prototype: ProtoChart
Tiny Charts (Sparklines) With jQuery: Peity
JavaScript graph library based on Raphaël
Grafico JavaScript Charting Library
Charts with JavaScript and The Ccanvas Element: AwesomeChartJS
Chart and Graph Plotting Library for JavaScript: PlotKit
Graph Visualization Library With Web Workers & jQuery: Arbor.js
A PHP SVG Graph Library: SVGGraph
Impressive Canvas Graphing Library: canvasXpress
Drill-Down Bar Charts With jQuery: DDChart
Google Finance-Like Charts With JavaScript: HumbleFinance
Powerful PHP Charts Library: JpGraph
Powerful HTML5 Graph Library: RGraph
Beautiful Free Charts For Excel & Powerpoint
JavaScript Data Visualization Toolkit: InfoVis
Free, Open Source Asp.Net Diagram Control: EasyDiagram.NET
Create Web Wirable Interfaces for Dataflow Applications: WireIt
Free Flash Charts From FusionCharts
Flash Data Visualization Library: Flare
Free Flash Chart Library: Open Flash Chart
Open Source PHP Chart Library: pChart
PHP Class For Google Charts API: GoogChart
Charts On The Fly With Google Charts API
