====== data ======

http://www.understandingusa.com/chaptercc=3&cs=42.html - fantastic representation of population across US

====blogs to check out ====
   * http://flowingdata.com/

===== processing =====
   * http://postspectacular.com/
   * http://toxi.co.uk

==== heat maps with processing ====
   * http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/YaBB.pl?board=Syntax%3Baction=display%3Bnum=1204795304

===== matlab =====
For heat maps, at least consider Matlab    
   * http://blogs.mathworks.com/pick/2007/08/28/heat-maps-in-matlab/

===== libraries =====

   * http://code.google.com/p/birdeye/
   * http://degrafa.org/
   * [[openflashchart2]]
   * http://prefuse.org/

==== graphs ====
   * http://gephi.org/

===javascript===
   * http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/dojotoolkit/dojox/charting/tests/  - these are fantastic

===silverlight===
   * http://www.visifire.com/

===== heat maps =====

   * http://michaelvandaniker.com/blog/
   * http://michaelvandaniker.com/blog/2008/07/06/how-to-make-heat-maps-in-flex/
   * http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-thematic-map-using-free-tools


===== graphs =====

   * http://thejit.org/

===== temporal viz =====

   * http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/
      *[[http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/wiki/Timeline_EventSources|Dataformat info]]
   * http://www.computus.org/journal/?cat=6
   * http://zerokspot.com/weblog/2008/06/25/create-a-timeline-in-javascript-with-simile/

==== gantt chart ====

   * http://www.fusioncharts.com/free/Gallery.asp
   * http://www.jsgantt.com/
   * http://www.linb.net/Samples/