The Art Of Presenting Data Attractively

One day I was surfing the web in search of new useful, interesting or simply amusing websites. Among others I came across one resource. I will not give its URL in order not to be accused of hidden promotion or counter-advertising. I can only say that the majority of the website content consisted of the variety of statistics about everything on the Earth. Biggest animals, most successful movies, longest buildings, top search terms and so on, and so forth The presented information seemed to be rather structured. It was divided into special categories like Animal world, Human actions. IT facts etc. where every separate record was given in the form of so called TOP 10. But I got completely lost in the abundance of the information. The reason is simple. There was nothing to catch my eye. Words, words and nothing but the words got me depressed. And I left the site though the information given really was interesting to me.

Shortly thereafter I began to think about the role of visualization in our understanding of the site.
It is well known that most of the information we receive comes to our mind through the images. The speed of visual perception and acceptance of data is much higher than the mere text. No matter how unique is the content, an empty list of numbers without a corresponding image support usually leads to irritation and the desire to eliminate the disturbing factor. At the same time, even simple little table or a chart can do in the subway situation.So how this fact can be used to make people come, stay and above all return to your website?
For example to many of our banks, investment companies and finance company's website. In the development of the crisis, they have a responsibility to fight for every one existing or potential customers conditions. So why does not mean unlimited economic and financial indices, interest rates and in the bar graph or histogram form of the value of such an important data? They will show the whole picture of customers, as well as the possibilities offered by better data analysis.
The main purpose of data visualization is to exchange information, but more effective, clear, obviously more than simple words. Today, we have a lot of tools to display the data on the site. The best way to input data into the contents of the site attractive and eye-eye-catching way is to use theflash components. Most of them do not require installation, work with many scripting languages and run on most of the browsers and support dynamic update of data in XML format. The variety of colors, types of diagram and interactivity make them very good tool for creating scalable and completely adjustable charts and animated graphs.s.

Today we can find many of the components to visualize graphs and charts appropriate data flash. We can name some of them.

• Open Flash Chart (http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart) - is an open source project providing flash charts that can present data in a variety of formats. It has classes written in PHP, Perl, Python, Java, Ruby on Rails, and .Net.
• FusionCharts (http://www.InfoSoftGlobal.com/FusionCharts) - A Flash based 3D and 2D animated charting component with a number of options including AJAX/JavaScript integration.
• FlyCharts (http://flycharts.net) – highly functional and easy-to-use flash chart component. It is interactive, scalable and flexible with external JavaScript interface and DHTML Grid integration.

In fact, the list is almost endless and will be added safely with such toolsSWF/XML Charts, AmCharts, AnyCharts, Google Chart API, etc.

In addition to interactive charts displaying statistics and accurate site can be enhanced with different graphs, charts and graphs org. There are separate tools for implementing this option as Origramy Flash Chart Component and Gliffy.

• Origramy Flash Graph Component (http://origramy.com) is a component designed for creating and viewing diagrams and graphs. The component has rich and intuitive multilingual interface, JavaScript support, several export formats and wide data organization ways.
• Gliffy (http://www.gliffy.com) is a free web-based diagram editor for creation and sharing flowcharts, network diagrams, user interface designs and other drawings online.

In fact, as these tools certainly captured the attention of visitors so that they can feel and understand what is hidden behind these figures, do not leave the scene, which one to use.