Web visualisations for data?

Question

I would like to display a bunch of data in a meaningful way through visualizations on a site.

I have been experimenting with RaphaelJS library, but

Answer 1

How about Tableau? Tableau Public (or Tableau Server for private sites) provides a quick and flexible tool for building data visualizations that can be embedded without any plugins. It won't give you full programmatic control though - it's designed for analysts.