Recently, a num­ber of inter­est­ing online tools for quan­ti­ta­tive data visu­al­iza­tion popped up:

swivel.com

“…is a place where curi­ous peo­ple explore all kinds of data.” (tag line) It allows any­body to upload, visu­al­ize and share data sets. The dia­grams can be embed­ded in any web page by using HTML snip­pets. I haven’t fig­ured out yet if these update auto­mat­i­cally, when the data set changes. If so, this is a really neat way to dis­play dynamic graphs on your page. And the whole sharing/discussing data aspect is really interesting.

reinvigorate.net

My favorite online web site ana­lyt­ics tool, which I totally for­got about, because it has been offline for two years or so. But the relaunch was really worth the wait, nice style, except for the glossy but­tons (WHY?), the col­ors and visual ideas are really good. Also feature-wise, it eas­ily puts google ana­lyt­ics behind — trend analy­sis with poly­no­mial fit­ting, real-time analy­sis, in-depth stats etc. I rec­om­mend test­ing it out if you are a stats junkie as I am.

IBM: many eyes

Looks a lot like swivel, except there are far more visu­al­iza­tion options and the dia­grams are inter­ac­tive (Java though — hrrr). Haven’t looked at it in depth yet, but it looks very inter­est­ing as well.