Unveil
26 Jul 2010 |
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data
visualization
graphics
data
visualization
graphics
Unveil by Michael Aufreiter is a data-driven visualization toolkit. In some ways it’s similar to InfoVis, but the data-driven design gives it a slightly different feel. The documentation gives some examples of this through the collection API:
var countries = new Collection({
"properties": "properties": {
"name": {
"name": "Country Name",
"type": "string",
"unique": true
},
"official_language": {
"name": "Official language",
"type": "string",
"unique": true
}
// ...
"items": {
"arg": {
"name": "Argentina",
"official_language": "Spanish Language",
// ...
The properties and items properties define a Collection. These can be searched, sorted, and transformed:
var english = countries.all('item').select(function(key, i) {
return i.value('official_language') === 'English';
});
The visualization API can then be used to render all kinds of graphs, complete with animation:
This is a fairly new project, so I expect there should be a lot of activity in the repository. The APIs have a pragmatic approach, but some of the underlying JavaScript is a little bit… Ruby style? Object is extended and global functions are used, rather than keeping everything within a closure.
