This week has seen the launch of The Miso Project, an “open source toolkit designed to expedite the creation of high-quality interactive storytelling and data visualisation content”. It is a joint development between The Guardian (with Alastair Dant and Alex Graul at the helm) and Boston-based Bocoup (led by Irene Ros).
The first set of libraries released is entitled Dataset is a JavaScript client-side data ‘transformation and management’ library which makes life easier for visualisation designers by “handling loading, parsing, sorting, querying and manipulating data from all sorts of sources”.