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No coding needed.</li> <li>embed the interactive visualizations in your own website or blog easily (simply copy & paste HTML code).</li> <li>export the visualizations as an image for presentation.</li> <li>you can embed the interactive visualizations in social media websites (e.g.: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/chartsbin/posts/104536672986238" target="_blank">Facebook.com</a>, <a href="http://digg.com/news/world_news/government_debt_as_percent_of_gdp_by_country_interactive_map" target="_blank">Digg.com</a>, etc.)</li> <li>we offers a public online gallery of interactive visualizations that have been derived from authentic sources such as books, government documents, technical reports, selected primary journal literature and websites. <a href="http://chartsbin.com/graph?sortby=chart_featured" title="Featured">Featured</a> and <a href="http://chartsbin.com/graph?sortby=chart_modified_date" title="Latest updates">Latest updates</a> sections are maintained by our volunteer team.</li> </ul> <p>Additionally, you can <b>download compiled dataset (CSV, XLS, SQL)</b>. 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Here is an exhaustive list of all of the stuff used to build this website.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.java.com/en/">Java</a> and C - Map data processing</li> <li><a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/">PROJ.4</a> - Cartographic Projections Library</li> <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript.html">Adobe ActionScript</a> - Interactive charts</li> <li><a href="http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK">Flex SDK</a> - Interactive charts</li> <li><a href="http://mbostock.github.com/d3/">d3.js - Data-Driven Documents</a> - Interactive charts</li> <li><a href="http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/">Open Flash Charts 2</a> - Plots charts of statistical data</li> <li><a href="http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/">Google Visualization API</a> - Plots charts of statistical data</li> <li><a href="http://jquery.com/">jQuery</a> - JavaScript Library</li> <li><a href="http://lomalogue.com/jquery/quicksearch/">jQuery quickSearch</a> - for searching through tables and lists</li> <li><a href="http://www.tablefixedheader.com/">jQuery fixheadertable</a> - for grid</li> <li><a href="http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-autocomplete/">jQuery Autocomplete Plugin</a> - for Autocomplete</li> <li><a href="http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/">jQuery ColorBox Plugin</a> - for Lightbox</li> <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/">SWFObject</a> - Flash Player detection and embed</li> <li><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/">The Yahoo! 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