I wanted to give the community a quick update on Axiis (the data visualization framework Michael and I have been working on) as I have received a lot of interest from within the community after blogging about it a few weeks ago.   First, we have been hard at work improving the core layout and render engine getting ready for our initial alpha release, which will be on May 19th, 2008.    If that date sounds familiar, it should, it is right in the middle of 360 Flex, where my talk on data visualization will focus on Axiis and how I have been using to solve some of my advanced Flex Data Visualization needs.  Our first release will be very “alpha”, but we should have enough working bits for people to start playing around and get a taste of what we are doing.

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Well, I guess it is time to finally let the cat out of the bag.  For the past few months Michael VanDaniker and I have been working away on a new open source project we have named Axiis (you can thank Juan Sanchez for the great name.)   We are still a couple months away from our first public alpha release, but I think it is worthwhile spending some time to discuss the details of what we have been developing. 

Axiis represents a new way to conceive of and develop interactive data visualizations.   It is based on Flex and ActionScript 3.0 but has a uniquely different approach to creating visualizations than the standard Flex charts, and pretty much any other data visualization package I have seen.  Our primary goal in developing Axiis is to create very concise, expressive, and flexible framework that uses a purely declarative (markup) based approach to create anything from simple cartesian charts to very complex and involved data visualizations.  

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