Rui CarmoThis is a spottily-updated list of miscellaneous resources I’ve come across dealing with data visualization in several forms.
The Graphs and Graphing and Visualization pages will be subsumed by this one in the fullness of time.
Ratings, when available, are entirely subjective based on my interest.
Resources
| Category | Date | Link | Rating | Type | Formats | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dashboards | 2023 | Tremor | N/A | A React library to build dashboards | ||
| Tabler | N/A | based on Bootstrap 5 | ||||
| 2026 | agent-recovery-viz | Web | visualization for agent recovery state and workflow inspection | |||
| Data Manipulation | 2013 | dataset | JavaScript | N/A | A library for manipulating datasets client-side (goes hand in hand with Storyboard, which is great for async processing.) | |
| Diagrams | 2026 | mermaid-ascii | JavaScript | ASCII | Render mermaid diagrams as ASCII/ANSI art for terminal-friendly outputs | |
| beautiful-mermaid | JavaScript | SVG | Outputs styled SVG/PNG for embedding; does not require a browser engine | |||
| Geodata | 2008 | gheat | Tile server for integration with [Google Maps](com/Google/Maps) | HTML, PNG | Requires Python 2.5, PIL and whatnot | |
| 2020 | vizceral | WebGL | a component for displaying traffic data among graph nodes on a WebGL canvas | |||
| Graphs | 2009 | Graphviz | Desktop and CLI app | Multiple | The quintessential graph rendering application, also available with a spiffy Mac OS X GUI | |
| Hypergraph | Java | N/A | Slow and pokey | |||
| The JavaScript Canvas Hyperbolic Tree | JavaScript | Canvas | Very good interactive navigation | |||
| Graph Gear | Viewer | Flash | Might be usable after a thorough visual review | |||
| jsViz | JavaScript | HTML | Impressively fast | |||
| Moowheel | JavaScript | Canvas | Not much interaction, but good visuals | |||
| 2011 | canviz | JavaScript | Canvas | An implementation of Graphviz for the browser | ||
| 2012 | Gephi | <a href="dev/Java">Java</a> | GL | A very nice platform for interactive graphs | ||
| UbiGraph | OpenGL | N/A | An awesome client-server approach that can handle thousands of dynamic nodes and has a number of language bindings. | |||
| 2013 | sigma.js | JavaScript | Canvas | A library for direct interaction with GEXF representations | ||
| 2014 | arbor.js | JavaScript | Canvas | Very fast. | ||
| Cytoscape.js | JavaScript | Canvas | With some interesting interactivity features. | |||
| JSNetworkX | JavaScript | SVG | A port of the Python | |||
| vis.js | JavaScript | Canvas | Can do timelines besides graphs. | |||
| GoJS | JavaScript | Multiple | Commercial, but interesting. | |||
| Miscellaneous | 2011 | NodeBox | Desktop app | Multiple | Can be used to programmatically do just about anything, including graphs. | |
| Flare | Multi-purpose library | Flash | Can do several kinds of interactive data plots and directed/undirected graphs | |||
| Flow Map | <a href="dev/Java">Java</a> desktop tool | Multiple | Unique, as far as I know | |||
| 2012 | d3-cloud | JavaScript | <a href="SVG"><span class="caps">SVG</span></a> | A D3-powered word cloud library that might come in handy. | ||
| 2024 | Rerun | SDK | N/A | A Time-aware multimodal data stack and visualizations, written in Rust | ||
| Multiple | 2024 | Plot | JavaScript Library | SVG | D3-based, pretty amazing feature set | |
| Scientific Visualization | 2009 | R | Desktop app | Multiple | Focuses on statistical computing, graphics are a competent add-on. | |
| SciGraphica | Desktop app | Multiple | Competent GTK app, hasn’t been updated since 2005 | |||
| matplotlib | Python | Multiple | Inspired by MATLAB. Good for publication quality output. Extremely sophisticated (and complex), looks better using this config file | |||
| MayaVi | Desktop app | Multiple | Heavy-duty scientific visualization tool | |||
| 2011 | ggplot2 | R | Multiple | Very interesting, if niche. | ||
| cinder | <a href="dev/Cplusplus">C++</a> | GL | Very high performance native code, with Mac/Xcode support. | |||
| d3.js | JavaScript | <a href="SVG"><span class="caps">SVG</span></a> | Allows for interesting interactivity. | |||
| philogl | JavaScript | GL | WebGL library – impressive. | |||
| 2026 | plotnine | Python | Multiple | a grammar-of-graphics plotting library for Python based on ggplot2 | ||
| Timeseries | 2013 | Timeline JS | JavaScript | HTML | A very nice, full-featured timeline solution. | |
| 2026 | neatocal | JavaScript | HTML | A year-in-one-page calendar visualization with compact, printable layouts |