Overview

BirdEye is a community project to advance the design and development of a comprehensive open source information visualization and visual analytics library for Adobe Flex. The actionscript-based library enables users to create multi-dimensional data visualization interfaces for the analysis and presentation of information. The project is based on development and the integration/adoption of related open source libraries (see credits and attributions). For status of development, refer to the wiki pages.

Features

The Feature set will be focused on five themes:

Relational Analysis (RaVis) Methods of analysing relationships, structures, and links among objects.

• Graph theory algorithms such as Radial, Hierarchical, and Force-Directed;
• Self-contained - all mathematical processing is performed within the library;
• Control - degrees of separation, data filtering, item rendering, drag and drop, look and feel, visibility, events, dataproviders, etc.

GeoSpatial Analysis (GeoVis) The analysis of locational and geographic data.

• Rendering of vector-based maps with control to style geographic objects (e.g. regions, countries, states), add symbol overlays, events, projections, coordinate addressing, etc...
• Custom maps via svg path data, shapefile readers, and KML/GML configurations;

Quantitative Analysis (QaVis) Conventional and novel methods of numerical and statistical analysis.

• Treemap
• Sparklines
• Venn diagrams, bullseye, pyramids, polar/spider charts, etc...
• Conventional chart and graph methods

Temporal Analysis (TaVis) The analysis of data that varies over time.

• Components to support chronology and date/time analysis

General Utility (GuVis) Concepts and techniques of information visualization and visual design.

• Distortion (Fisheye / BiFocal)

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Questions and Discussion

You are invited to join the Group Support site to pose questions and discuss implementation of the library.