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Datavisualization.ch Selected Tools is a collection of tools that they, the people behind Datavisualization.ch, work with on a daily basis and recommend warmly. This is not a list of everything out there, but instead a thoughtfully curated selection of their favourite tools that will make your life easier creating meaningful and beautiful data visualizations.

Circos is a software package for visualizing data and information. It visualizes data in a circular layout — this makes Circos ideal for exploring relationships between objects or positions. There are other reasons why a circular layout is advantageous, not the least being the fact that it is attractive.

Circos is ideal for creating publication-quality infographics and illustrations with a high data-to-ink ratio, richly layered data and pleasant symmetries. You have fine control each element in the figure to tailor its focus points and detail to your audience.

There are riots in different area. Now we can see distribution of riots in the graph.

Vandalism is in eight area.
Looting is in six area.
Assault is in four area.
Arson is in two area.

The infographic is above shows the detail from previous page data. The size of the circles show the number of riots committed in that area.