BirdEye is a community project to advance the design and development of a comprehensive open source information visualization and visual analytics library for Adobe Flex. The actionscript-based library enables users to create multi-dimensional data visualization interfaces for the analysis and presentation of information.

DVAL is a XML-based syntax language for specifying visual representations. The approach is based on the concepts of Leland Wilkinson’s book The Grammar of Graphics. In this book he describes a foundation for producing a comprehensive information visualization language. The advantage of the DVAL is that all visuals are created using the same structure and logic.