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Other Information Visualization Tools
Taxedo
Tagxedo turns words – famous speeches, news articles, slogans, themes, even your love letters – into a visually stunning word cloud. Every word is individually sized to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
Wordle
Wordle is a simple web app for generating “word clouds” from the text you provide. While the clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text, you can also tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
StatSilk
StatSilk offers web-based and desktop software to make data analysis easy, efficient and enjoyable, to cater to diverse mapping and visualisation needs.
Timeline JS
TimelineJS is a beautifully crafted timeline that is easy and intuitive to use. You can pull in media from different sources with built-in support for Twitter, Flickr, Google Maps, YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Wikipedia, SoundCloud and more.
Visual.ly
Visually helps you customize infographics in seconds, and no, you don’t have to be an analyst or designer to make infographics with Visually Create. Visual.ly allows you to also discover infographics and favorites from other users.
Piktochart
With Piktochart, you get to create an innovative Infographic using a combination of different types of visualizations: themes, icons, vectors, images and chart exporter. Drag-and-drop and click your way through color schemes, shapes and fonts, then export the materials as static or html to easily embed it for use at your site.
Venngage
enngage is an online infographics tool that helps you create and publish custom infographics, and at the same time, engage viewers and track results. Venngage allows you to create beautiful infographics for blogs and websites and you can also watch the numbers of your audience grow with compelling and beautiful content.
iCharts
With iCharts, you can create great-looking charts in minutes with interactive and easy-to-share data. iCharts makes it easy to visualize, share and distribute big and small data.
Fairly Traditional, Slide-Based Tools
- Prezi -- a multimedia-friendly, 3D presentation tool -- remember to sign up for an educational account with your CMU email address!
- HaikuDeck -- an app for IPad that can be exported to Keynote or PowerPoint (but doesn't support sound, animation, or transitions)
- SoftMaker Presentations Mobile -- this one's for Android, but is very similar to PowerPoint
- Google Slides -- Addicted to Google? Add this product into your repertoire
- Empressr -- online presentation creation & sharing tool, enables embedded video and slides can be embedded anywhere
- Keynote -- Mac user? This should have come with your MacBook or iPad as part of iWork-- why not use it?
- PreZentit -- all you need is a web browser -- it's not flashy, but it'll get the job done, it's free, and can be downloaded for offline presentation
- Brainshark (and it's mobile app Slideshark) -- can convert an existing PowerPoint to an online video -- a good option for you online students?
- Screencast-O-Matic -- turn your PowerPoint into a screencast, then share it on YouTube, your/a website, and more
- Flair -- NOT FREE - but does build exciting Flash-based presentations for comprehensive educational simulations
- SlideSnack -- upload your presentation as a PDF and record it as a slidecast
