I am currently doing a literary review on Visualization Tools for big data, to establish a state of the art, and later define or use a method of evaluating those tools.
3. 39 Data Visualization Tools for Big Data | ProfitBricks Blog
https://blog.profitbricks.com/39-data-visualization-tools-for-big-data/Feb 13, 2014 ... B
4. Review of 20 best big data visualization tools - Big Data Made Simple
http://bigdata-madesimple.com/review-of-20-best-big-data-visualization-tools/Big Data is amazing. It describes our everyday behavior, keeps track of the places we go, stores what we like to do and how much time we spend doing our fa.
Some years ago, a couple of papers appeared to analyse the state-of-the-art. I think youi could find somehint there for your research. The papers were:
Harger, J.R.; P.J. Crossno (2012). Comparison of open-source visual analytics toolkits. In Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis;
Zhang L.; A. Stoffel; M. Behrisch; S. Mittelstädt; T. Schreck; R. Pompl; S. Weber; H. Last; D.A. Keim (2012). Visual analytics for the big data era - a comparative review of state-of-the-art commercial systems. Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology
I'd recommend that you consider caveats to simply 'putting the cart before the horse' - Ie. selecting a technology prior to understanding what you truly want to accomplish in messaging, and to whom. We discuss this in depict in our text on Visual Analytics for Management. I also get into this a bit in Article Fit, Bias and Enacted Sensemaking in Data visualization: Fra...