Data Visualization Software
What is visualization software? This is specific software used in the field of visualization. A number of softwares are available in the wide spectrum of visualization to accomplish various purposes. Some softwares are commercial ones and some are free. In today’s world of open source environment developers have come up with applications made available under the public GNU license. Basically, visualization tools take the help of diagrams, pie chart, flow chart, two dimensional and three dimensional views, animations, bars, linking, databases, static and dynamic variables, office objects, etc to provide thorough understanding of the underneath technology to businessmen, researchers, analysts, network analyzers, software and hardware developers and alike.
Commercial Data mining and visualization software includes the likes of Centrifuge Systems, Advizor Analyst, Data Desk, Ciber Data Visualiztion, Davisor Chart, Data Montage, i2 Analyst’s Workstation, Gsharp, High Tower Tower View, iLog Discovery, IDL, InFlow Network Mapping Software, IRIS Explorer, MAYA Viz Comotion, Eudaptics Viscovery, Miner 3D, K Wiz, Mercury Visualization Sciences Group, NETMAP, Parallax: Multi Dimensional Graphs, PV-WAVE, RapAnalyst, SPSS, Xanalysis Watson, and many more.
The range of free visualization software is not so wide like the commercial ones. Still, a number of good applications are out there to help data mining and visualizing. Example of some open source and free visualizing tools are GGobi, Databionic ESOM Tools, XGOBI, VisDB, Graf-FX, XmdvTool, Graphviz, IBM OpenDX: Open Visualization Data Explorer, etc.
Some information on the softwares mentioned above.
Centrifuge systems: This software is designed to find out the anomalies in relationships and discover non-obvious relationships.
Daisy: This is an interactive investigation application which analyzes graphically.
Advizor analyst: This is an interactive visualizing tool for business data analysis.
For example, if we take a peek in to the Advizor Analyst application then we shall find that about fifteen years of research and development (R&D) have gone through in the making of the visualization technology. The research was based on the perceptional reactions of human beings to the displayed information. The focus of the expertise is more on the perceptual efficiency and less on visual charm. The data displayed are linked with various tables and databases and answers to queries are intuitive (rather than focusing on a single problem and response).
Advizor Analyst is a brain child of Advizor Solutions, similar to Business Objects SA’s Inxsight. Alias, Microsoft, IBM, Ciber, Centrifuge Systems, i2 Solutions, Orgnet, Numerical Algorithms Group, Mercury Visualization Sciences, General Dynamics CA Systems and lots of others are in the market of visualization software.