Visualization Tools

From basic line graphs to word clouds to advanced visualization techniques, these applications will allow you to create interesting visual representations from a variety of data types.

Resources in this category:

Animoto
http://animoto.com/

Animoto is able to turn pictures into music videos. By analyzing uploaded photos and music, Animoto automatically generates the video, pacing the photos to the beat of the music.

Card.ly
http://card.ly/

Create an online business card from Card.ly. Card.ly imports all your social media network profiles into one, organized, attractive business card.

Mindomo
http://www.mindomo.com/

Mindomo is an online, no download required, mind-mapping software. You can draw maps, create outlines, connect and organize concepts all in a visually appealing way.

Tasty Data Goodies - Swivel
http://www.swivel.com/

Upload and visualize your spreadsheet data - then compare it with data that others have loaded. A great place to review a variety of data visualization examples and to create your own. Note that any data uploaded for free at Swivel becomes available for all visitors at Swivel to view.

The Big Picture
http://thebigpic.org/

The Big Picture is "an online, intuitive, visual organizer." Create projects with specific tags and organize to-do lists by date. Great for organizing, scheduling and managing projects and to-do lists.

VoiceThread
http://voicethread.com/#home

VoiceThread is a "collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments" via voice, text, audio file or video.

Wordle
http://www.wordle.net/

Wordle generates "word clouds" - a collection of text you share arranged in a unique, organized way. Words used more frequently appear larger. You can tweak your word cloud by changing colors, fonts and arrangements.

ZoomClouds
http://zoomclouds.egrupos.net/

Create your own tag cloud for your Web site in three easy steps. "Tag clouds are cool, informative, appealing representations about what's happening in your blog, or anywhere else. With ZoomClouds you can put in a matter of minutes a tag cloud in your site, based on whichever RSS feed you like."