Data Visualization

Cytospace is a free network visualization tool available on web browsers and Windows systems. Users can upload molecular, genetic, or tabular data across numerous formats (including CX2, JSON, SIF, GML, XGMML, SBML, BioPAX, Graph ML, delimited text, XLS, and XLSX0, or connect directly to public databases like Pathway Commons, IntAct, BioMart, NCBI, and Entrez Gene. Cytoscape enables users to search, filter, annotate, and visualize their data. Users can choose from network layouts like acyclic, tree, force-directed, and edge-width to display biological pathways, gene expressions, or interpersonal relationships. The thickness, colors, and labels of nodes and borders can be customized on visualizations. Visualization can be exported as PDF, DS, SVG, PNG, JPEG, and DMP files. 

Gephi is a fee network visualization tool designed to map biological, technological, natural, informational, and social networks. It is accessible through web browsers or can downloaded on Mac, Windows, and Linux systems. Users can upload data in various file formats, including GEXF, GDF, GML, Graph ML, Graphviz Dot, CSV, UCINET, Tulip TPL, Pajek NET, VNA, XLSX, XLS, XLSM, and ODS. Gephi allows users to uncover structural patterns using community detection, clustering, and central measuring. Users can interact with their visualization zooming in and out, panning, and selecting individual nodes, and more using Gephi plugins. Projects can be saved or exported as SVG, PNG, or PDF files. 

Power BI is a Microsoft data visualization tool available via web browsers, and all Sewanee students, faculty, and staff have access to through the university. Users can import data by linked SQL Server Data, Azure SQL databases, web APIs, as well as by uploading Excel spreadsheets, CSV files, or pasting the data into the interface. Power BI can create bar, column, line, area, combo, ribbon, waterfall, pie, funnel, scatter, bubble, and gauge charts, alongside tables, maps, matrices, KPIs, card visualization, and tree maps form imported data. Visualizations can be exported to other Microsoft applications (such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), as a PDF, or copied as an image. 

Palladio is a free, web-based tool that allows users to visualize historical data. Users can upload data by executing a SPARQL query, importing CSV, TAB, or TSV files, pasting a URL, or pasting data into the interface. Data uploading to Palladio can be added to a map, timeline, or network connection graphs. Palladio also offers a gallery view that arranges data into a scannable grid with photos and link that can be sorted by various dimensions. While graphs, maps, timelines, and galleries can be linked to a website, they can't be exported. 

RAWGraphs is a free, web-based tool that enables users to upload datasets and visualize them using a variety of visualizations. Users can upload data through direct copy-pasting, URLs to public data, SPARQL queries, or file uploads in TSV, CSV, DSV, or JSON formats. The visualizations types user can choose from include box plots, calendar heatmaps, parallel coordinates, Sankey diagrams, sunburst diagrams, bubble charts, line charts, pie charts, slope charts, beeswarm plots, steam graphs, bar charts, multiple types of dendrograms; users can also upload their own graph type. Users can personalize charts by adjusting the width height, margin, and color. Visualizations can be exported as SVG, PNG, JPG, or RAWGraphs files.

Excel is a Microsoft tool that can be used for data visualization available via web browsers, and all Sewanee students, faculty, and staff have access through the university. Users can input data by typing directly into cells, copy-pasting, uploading images, linked URLs, or importing CSV, and text files. Excel can create pie, bar, column, line, doughnut, area, bubble, treemap, sunburst, waterfall, funnel, combo, radar, histogram, bubble, scatter, and box-and-whisker charts. Charts can be copied, saved as a webpage, or exported as a PNG, JPEG, and PDF file. 

Orange is a free data visualization tool that can be downloaded onto Mac and Windows computers. Users can import data by uploading files in XLSX, TXT, CSV, DOCX, ODT, PDF, XML, CoNLL formats, or by pasting URLs to datasets online. Orange can visualize data as box plots, scatter plots, line graphs, bar charts, Venn diagrams, tree views, and network graphs. Visualization can be exported as PNG, SVG, or PDF files, or as Python instructions.