Life is funny sometimes. For instance, this morning I blogged about Doug McCune's recent data visualization work, and then a few hours later David Mendels sent out an email about a new toolkit that was released last week to help developers with data visualization. The Flare Visualization Toolkit is "a collection of ActionScript 3 classes for building a wide variety of interactive visualizations. For example, flare can be used to build basic charts, complex animations, network diagrams, treemaps, and more."

The demo is impressive, but perhaps even more impressive is that Flare is based on a Java library called Prefuse. Its great to see Java libraries are being ported over to ActionScript 3 libraries as part of the same project (or at least the same domain).