Flex-Powered Multi-Touch Data Visualization on the iPad, Android, and the BlackBerry PlayBook

Multi-touch is revolutionizing the way we interact with applications. The idea of user interfaces behaving like real life objects has been kicked around for a long time, and touch screens remove an important barrier. In the area of data visualization, multi-touch can have a particularly transformative effect: there are definitely a lot of opportunities for more “natural” data manipulation and exploration.

Check out the video (running on an iPad). Of course, the same application can run on Android, on the BlackBerry PlayBook, and in the browser or as a desktop application on traditional computers.

This is just a small example of thinking about data visualization differently. Charts don’t have to be read-only: If the data isn’t right, change it right there (“in place editing”).

I’m looking forward to seeing what people will come up with in this exciting field.