[wdmmg-discuss] Alternative to Many Eyes data visualising tool (?) ... that's embeddable

Mon Nov 29 09:07:35 UTC 2010

On 28 November 2010 21:27, K Corrick <kathryn.corrick at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I've just stumbled across http://www.tableausoftware.com it looks pretty
> cool and has an API, but the best of my searching can't figure out if it's
> open source or not (usually I figure that if I can't find this out quickly
> it's probably not, but wiser folk here might know better).

It's not.

> What's nice is that the data used for the visualisations is live, rather
> than static, and that it's easy to embed.
>
> Just wondering if anyone has used it and knows a bit more.

I haven't used it but I've talked with people who have and it has a
good reputation. However, it's not opensource so it's a bit of a
dead-end for WDMMG.

Rufus