Rotating Text without Embedding Fonts
I needed this for creating an axis label for a chart. The Flex Charting label was flashing. Basically it creates a bitmap of the text and then rotates that. Obviously, you can’t select text, but, might be useful for someone. Here it is. Click the “add a text field” button. Then change text in the text input component. Rotate using the slider. Right click, view source.
Info/Data Design Link Dump
Bill Scott’s presentation on designing web interfaces is great. I’ll be buying his book. (via DashboardSpy)
I just ran across datavisualization.ch. Add it to your must reads (along w/ infosthetics and flowing data. And so many more.)
Spent some time going through this flickr set.
And watched this video of Manuel Lima from Visual Complexity.
Also, there’s a Flex Data Visualization contest.
Holy shit. It appears people actually (finally, thank god) care about data visualization. For the first time, I don’t think you can keep track of all the examples (and still have time for work). I remember when Public APIs hit that point maybe 3 or 4 years ago. Exciting.
Chart Collection
Not Flash (or Flex – OMG! FlexBuilder is now FlashBuilder! – really, who cares?) but, these are pretty sweet. FlipFlopFlyBall.
Crime Spotting
Oakland Crime Spotting time selector is great.
Five Minute Design Patterns Presentation Files
Amazingly, made it through ten patterns in an hour – even w/ my long winded intro.
Presentation here: keynote, pdf, ppt.
Code is here. Right-click, view source. There is a different application file for each of the patterns. So, only the first example (the non-patterns example) is viewable on-line.
Thanks to everyone who attended the talk. It was a great turnout and I had a blast.
Kudos to Chris and Rebecca for putting on such a great conference. Flash on Tap definitely rocked. Can’t wait for next year.