Liquid Diagrams:

The field of information visualisation is no longer only a discipline for academics, but also increas-ingly for a more general audience, who want to create computer-based visualisations of their own data. Liquid Diagrams addresses this wider audience by providing twelve highly interactive visualisations, which can be exported using high-quality raster (PNG) and vector graphics (SVG). This thesis gives an overview of existing information visualisation solutions. In addition, it describes the modifications and improvements made to the Liquid Diagrams framework and outlines version 2.0, its current state. Enhancements over version 1.0 include extending the user interface, improving perfor-mance, introducing 3d effects, and refactoring the architecture of the framework. Two new variants, a standalone version and a gadget version using cookies, were also created. Liquid Diagrams 2.0 contains the visualisations area chart, bar chart, line chart, pie chart, paral-lel coordinates, star plot, bat’s wing diagram, polar area diagram, heatmap (choropleth map), treemap, Voronoi treemap, and similarity map. The similarity map uses a force-directed placement algorithm to place similar data entities close to one another. A special focus of this thesis is on 3d extensions to th