Flare

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open source visualization tools in AS3

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Data Viz Talk Files

Here are the files from my BFPUG and Harvard Flash User Group talks. I can’t upload the applications I showed of Visual i|o work, but here’s everything else.

Presention File:

A lot of the middle slides I didn’t even show, but, used as notes while I was demoing the apps.

Download - 10MB rar file. Extracts to Open Office doc.

Here is a PowerPoint version compressed as a zip.

Sample Code:

AS2 Bar Chart - code set up for Eclipse using FDT - to run from Flash IDE - import Main.as and run Main.main(); It also uses SOS for tracing.

Flex Chart Bar Chart example (by Peter deHann) - a great example of how easy it is to chart in Flex. I was going to port the above AS2 example to AS3 - but I’m busy and Flex charting is excellent.

Links to sites I mentioned in the talk:

Intro:

Lokesh Dhakar - Coffee Drinks

Edward Tufte

Khi Vinh - Think Like a Dog

Gapminder World Chart

Patraeus Charts - Iraq by the Numbers

Indo European Languages

TuneGlue

MOMA Tall Buildings

BabyTracker

National Geographic Ethanol Story

NY Times

Visual i|o data Viz Wak Throughs

Can’t post what I showed - but here are some examples of our work:

Bubble Chart

Baseball - Pull the Pitcher

Trends/Mashups:

Google News Map

Chart to Art:

Alex Dragulescu - Spam Architecture

Jev Bratt - DataBase Imagery

Jason Salavon

Martin Wattenberg - Shape of Song

Stamen - Digg Labs

Flickr Related Tag Browser

Findr

Flex Charting

Hans Rosling Ted Talk 2006

 

Speaking at Harvard Flash Group

Look Ma - I’m speaking at Harvard! I’ll be giving the Data Visualization talk that I just gave at BFPUG to the Harvard University Flash Users Group next Thursday (October 18th). It’s from 12:15 - 1:45 in the Lamont Library. I’m pretty sure you need a Harvard ID to get in, but, if you want to go, send me an email. I’m sure we can figure something out.