How about Tableau software?

It is not open source that you can modify it. I found MASON for nature-inspired simulation visualization but you need to modify it for information visualization http://cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/projects/mason/

https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/

We have used D3.js extensively for creating visualizations in our lab.

Hi,

I think it will depend both on your visualization goals and skills. For instance, D3.js requires programming skills, while, in general, commercial tools are ready to use. On the other side, these tools have a limited set of charts to choose and therefore, it is important to understand if your visualization ideas fit them correctly and convey the right message to users. In this sense, programming allows you more freedom for tuning predefined charts or even inventing new ones.

If you want to program, I would suggest also R graphical libraries (e.g. ggplot2). In general, you can produce static images but there is also a bunch of them providing interactive features (e.g. htmlwidgets, ggiraph and so on). You can also build web dashboards with Shiny.

Another option could be plotly.

Hope it will be useful

https://plot.ly/

Two very popular tools are D3.js (https://d3js.org) and Plotly (https://plot.ly).

There are many visualization toolkit and their use depend on the kind of work you do. To name few :

Plotly

DataHero

Tableau

Raw

Dygraphs

ZingChart

Visual.ly

FusionCharts

D3.js

HighCharts

Google Charts

Crossfilter

PolyMaps

Deck.gl