# Web Browser Visualization Libraries?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-browser-visualization-libraries/193480>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 18, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-browser-visualization-libraries/193480 "2010-08-18T14:04:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![goodfriend](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@goodfriend](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/goodfriend)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-browser-visualization-libraries/193480/1 "2010-08-18T14:04:15Z")

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Hi,

Are there any complex visualization libraries that can be used with Ruby  
and/or Ruby on Rails that are similar to Prefuse (found at  
[http://www.prefuse.org](http://www.prefuse.org))?

Thanks for any assistance you can offer.

My Best,

Frank

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**Author:** ![goodfriend](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@goodfriend](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/goodfriend)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-browser-visualization-libraries/193480/2 "2010-08-18T20:58:50Z")

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On 2010-08-18 08:04:33 -0400, Frank G. said:

> Frank  
> You could tie into Flash or one of these javascript libraries:  
> [http://datavisualization.ch/tools/13-javascript-libraries-for-visualizations](http://datavisualization.ch/tools/13-javascript-libraries-for-visualizations)

I haven’t personally messed with any of these, but Raphael in  
particular looks pretty promising.

Best,  
Chris

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**Author:** ![goodfriend](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@goodfriend](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/goodfriend)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-browser-visualization-libraries/193480/3 "2010-08-19T01:45:16Z")

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Matt and Chris,

Thanks for the info. I’ll take a look at both Raphael and JRuby.

It would be nice if there was a tutorial on how to tie all of this stuff  
together.

If anyone’s ever done any of this stuff, please feel free to contact me.  
I’d love to connect over it and share what we learn.

My Best,

Frank

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**Author:** ![goodfriend](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@goodfriend](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/goodfriend)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-browser-visualization-libraries/193480/4 "2010-08-18T21:05:16Z")

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On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Chris Fletcher wrote:

> > My Best,
> > 
> > Frank
> 
> You could tie into Flash or one of these javascript libraries:  
> [http://datavisualization.ch/tools/13-javascript-libraries-for-visualizations](http://datavisualization.ch/tools/13-javascript-libraries-for-visualizations)
> 
> I haven’t personally messed with any of these, but Raphael in particular  
> looks pretty promising.

Raphael is pretty nifty.

Or you could use prefuse with jruby.

Matt

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**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-browser-visualization-libraries/193480/5 "2010-08-19T02:17:20Z")

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OK… I think I’m falling in love with InfoVis…

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