idgit.org
After doing the trailer for the FlashForward awards (which I lost - I can only assume the judges were Swedish), I remembered how fun it is to make useless Flash animations. You don’t have to worry about user behavior. You can add music. Big initial downloads don’t matter (although findr personal sure has that). So, I’ve re-launched an old url of mine (idgit.org) where I used to post Flash experiments. I went through some old files - and cleaned up and posted one. (more soon, hopefully)
What does this have to do with data visualization? Uh, not much. But, it does use the drawing api.
tagtree, findr Update
I made a new version of findr - findr personal. It loads all of a single flickr user’s pictures and creates a tag structure. Unfortunately, the initial load is painfully slow (a separate query is called to get each pic’s tags). But, there are advantages to having all the data - for example, you know how many pictures relate to each tag.
I also fixed some bugs and added a couple features, including a link to flickr’s slide show player. In certain situations, the slide player may not exactly match what you are viewing in findr but usually it will work just fine. (flickr’s slide player doesn’t load 99 pics at once, support all type of sorting, or allow for a startPage param - or maybe it does, but I couldn’t figure it out).
Also - just to confuse matters, I’ve set up a new site, tagtree.net, for all of these tag based experiments. (I’m calling the tag navigation part of findr a tagtree.) I updated findr and findr advanced on this site, but, findr personal only lives on tagtree. Eventually, I’ll probably just set up a re-direct from here. I’m not positive starting a new site is a good idea, but whatever.
tagtree.net
findr personal
findr
findr advanced