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Data visualization is as important to a JS developer as making interactive web pages. Sometimes it might be hard to choose from multiple libraries for creating beautiful charts for the Web. To make things easier, we listed 14 best Javascript libraries for data visualization.

The YUI Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. YUI is available under a BSD license and is free for all uses. The YUI project includes the YUI Library and two build-time tools: YUI Compressor (minification) and YUI Doc (documentation engine for JavaScript code).

Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library.

React offers different libraries, already written components, to add internationalization to the apps. Significantly reducing time and costs for the developers, these international libraries allow the app to function and be supported in any language around the world.

Passpack Host-Proof Hosting is a package who's aim is to give Ajax programmers the libraries they need to build a Host-Proof Hosting application. A number of pre-existing libraries have been modified and grouped together under the Passpack namespace in order to facilitate use.

Seed is a library and interpreter, dynamically bridging (through GObjectIntrospection) the WebKit JavaScriptCore engine, with the GObject type system. In a more concrete sense, Seed enables you to immediately write applications around a significant portion of the GNOME platform, and easily embed JavaScript as a scripting-language in your GObject library.

See also:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006/11/15/ajax-dhtml-and-javascript-libraries/
http://www.whenpenguinsattack.com/2007/04/24/top-5-javascript-frameworks/?articleid=890
http://www.c-point.com/javascript_and_ajax_libraries.php

good introduction to js libraries

gRaphaël's goal is to help you create stunning charts on your website. It is based on Raphaël graphics library.

Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux, and Backbone.js's suspenders.

Open source javascript crypto library. Includes AES-256, Fortuna, SRP, SHA-2 functions.

A pure-JavaScript CSS selector engine designed to be easily dropped in to a host library. Sizzle supports virtually all CSS 3 Selectors - this even includes some parts that are infrequently implemented such as escaped selectors (".foo\\+bar"), Unicode selectors, and results returned in document order. There are a few notable exceptions to the CSS 3 selector support (the reasoning for this decision can be found here): * :root * :target * :nth-last-child * :nth-of-type / :nth-last-of-type / :first-of-type / :last-of-type / :only-of-type * :lang() In addition to the CSS 3 Selectors Sizzle supports the following additional selectors or conventions.

Underscore is a utility-belt library for Javascript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in Javascript objects. It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux.

Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux. Collections each, map, reduce, detect, select, reject, all, any, include, invoke, pluck, max, min, sortBy, sortedIndex, toArray, size Arrays first, last, compact, flatten, without, uniq, intersect, zip, indexOf, lastIndexOf Functions bind, bindAll, delay, defer, wrap, compose Objects keys, values, extend, clone, isEqual, isElement, isArray, isFunction, isUndefined Utility noConflict, identity, uniqueId, template

How to use JQuery (or other libraries) in a bookmarklet! With an example of making textarea's resizeable. Chris Adams provides a template for creating your own bookmarklet and explains some of the reasons you might want to use this technique for development and testing. He also points out some gotcha's to be careful of.

How to use JQuery (or other libraries) in a bookmarklet! With an example of making textarea's resizeable. Chris Adams provides a template for creating your own bookmarklet and explains some of the reasons you might want to use this technique for development and testing. He also points out some gotcha's to be careful of.

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

Great little site listing really useful small JavaScript libraries for all sorts of uses.