Hi! I'm Nicolas and I'm interested in information visualization, JavaScript and web standards.
I currently work as a Data Visualization Scientist at Twitter. I wrote PhiloGL, the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit and V8-GL.
The JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit 1.1 is Out!
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After several months of hard work I can finally announce version 1.1 of the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit.
What's the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit?
The JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit provides tools for creating Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web.What's new in this version?
- A new project page where you can access all things related to this library: documentation, demos, tutorials, this blog, etc.
- A complete API documentation generated with Natural Docs, with some Narrative Documentation and Syntax Highlighted Code Examples.
- A Demos page where you can find some interactive library examples and you can browse through the examples code.
- The JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit is now hosted at GitHub, so you can fork it and do whatever you like with it. You can also report bugs with the new issue tracker.
- The library has been split into modules for code reuse.
- All visualizations are packaged in the same file. You can create multiple instances of any visualization. Moreover, you can combine and compose visualizations. If you want to know more take a look at the Advanced Demos.
- This Toolkit is library agnostic. This means that you can combine this toolkit with your favorite DOM/Events/Ajax framework such as Prototype, MooTools, ExtJS, YUI, JQuery, etc.
- You can extend this library in many ways by adding or overriding class methods. The JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit has a robust (and private) class system, heavily inspired by MooTools', that allows you to implement new methods in the same class without having to define any new Class extension. By creating mutable classes you can add new custom Node and Edge rendering functions pretty easily.
- Custom visualizations are created by adding or changing Node/Edge colors, shapes, rendering functions, etc. You can also implement many controller methods that are triggered at different stages of the animation, like onBefore/AfterPlotLine, onBefore/AfterCompute, onBefore/AfterPlotNode, request, etc. You can also add new Animation transitions like Elastic or Back with easeIn/Out transitions. If you want to know more about these features please take a look at the Demos code.