>>> [!note] Migrated issue <!-- Drupal.org comment --> <!-- Migrated from issue #1898582. --> Reported by: [aendra](https://www.drupal.org/user/817398) >>> <p>There seems to be a pretty decent community building visualization tools for Drupal -- there are over <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/93064">25 projects related to visualization</a>, of which there are several different API modules (Visualization API, Data Visualization API and Google Chart API being three of the best). </p> <p>This is a topic of interest particularly close to me -- in addition to the Drupal development I do, I'm also a practicing data journalist and am working on a Drupal distribution to enable <a href="http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/">ManyEyes</a>-like cloud-based dataset and viz hosting. However, as I began building my distribution, I quickly realized that while there are a lot of good tools for Drupal, documentation is sadly lacking and the fragmentation caused by so many separate (and ofter rather-similar) projects means that there is no one "center of gravity".</p> <p>To this end, I propose to start <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/visualization">this general-purpose group</a> in order to advance efforts to create <strong>strong</strong>, <strong>stable</strong>, <strong>scalable</strong>, and <strong>easy-to-use</strong> visualization tools for Drupal, in addition to discussing the use of Drupal for data visualization more generally.</p> <p>Note that this group is unrelated to the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/visualization">project of the same name</a>. If this similarity is thought to be too confusing, "dataviz" or even just "viz" is also acceptable.</p> <p>See: <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/visualization">http://groups.drupal.org/visualization</a></p> <p>Cheers,<br> -&AElig;ndrew Rininsland (<a href="http://drupal.org/user/817398">aendrew</a>)</p>