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World Cup Interactive Schedule

Doug — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:35:57 +0000

Interactive World Cup schedule. via I Love Charts

PatientsLikeMe (where I work)

Doug — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:32:17 +0000

I’ve been meaning to post about this for a while. But, looks like infosthetics beat me to it. I’ve been working at PatientsLikeMe for about a year – first consulting and now full time. PatientsLikeMe is a social media site for people w/ serious diseases. There are currently eight main disease communities: ALS, Epilepsy, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue System, HIV/AIDS, Mood Conditions (Anxiety, Bipolar, Depression, OCD, PTSD), MS, Parkinson’s, and Organ Transplants. I’m making charts. It’s awesome. I really believe we’re making a difference in people’s lives and contributing to medical discovery. Please take a look at the very nice infosthetics post about us to learn more. I’ll try to start posting more about what we’re doing soon.

Minimal Charts

Doug — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:51:18 +0000

Keith Peters has created some minimal charts to go w/ his minimal components. Look like they might be a good choice for sparklines.

Data visualization components now part of non-pro FlexBuilder

Doug — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:46:21 +0000

From iamdeepa

Mega Shark Infographic

Doug — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:47:44 +0000

I love this

Megashark infographic

and the clip from the movie that inspired the infographic

Vote! Today! for Martha Coakley!

Doug — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:36:51 +0000

Don’t forget to vote today if you live in Massachusetts. Scott Brown is a bad man who, like all Republicans, hates children and puppies. So, vote for Martha Coakley.

Intro to Flex Charting Talk – Weds Oct 28

Doug — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:11:40 +0000

I’ll be giving a talk on Flex Charting next week at NEIA. Please attend.

Here’s the description…

Intro to Flex Charting

Flex Charting is a pain in the ass to use. It’s very easy to create a simple chart but gets more and more difficult the more you want to customize. During this talk, we will start with a simple chart and add more and more features and functionality. By the end you should have a basic understanding of the Flex charting classes. Time permitting, we will discuss some other Flex data visualization libraries and some tips and tricks for making complex charts. Our sample data set will be Michael Jackson’s Number 1 hits, so if nothing else, you will learn something about the King of Pop.

Wednesday, October 28
7:15 – 9:00
Room 1001-1002 on Center Campus The New England Institute of Art 10 Brookline Place West Brookline, MA 02445 Brookline Village Stop on the MBTA D Greenline

Data Posters

Doug — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:40:07 +0000

Nathan over at flowingdata is now selling posters. They’re cool. And you should give him money just for maintaining his excellent blog.

If you like data posters, history shots is cool too.

Hans Rosling Video

Doug — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:45:15 +0000

He’s the man. There are lots of fancy data visualizations on the web, but, his are the best. Simple, powerful, important messages conveyed through charts. Here’s his presentation to the state department. Oh yeah – he’s also really funny and can swallow swords.

Flex SDK 3.4 Extracting DataVisualization Source

Doug — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:21:26 +0000

Adobe released a new sdk for Flex which fixes a cross-scripting security threat. So, you download the sdk, unzip it, create a new directory for 3.4.0 in your flex sdks directory. Also extract the data viz zip and put its files in the appropriate directories in the 3.4.0 directory that you just added. (You could do this different ways as well.)

Then in Flex Builder, right click on a project, choose Properties, Flex Compiler, Configure Flex SDKs. And add your new SDK.

So, pretty sure there are plenty of posts on how to do the above. But, now you need to extract the DataViz source. This post explains that. And here’s what you can copy and paste into Terminal to get it to work if you’re on a mac.

java -jar “/Applications/Adobe Flex Builder 3 Plug-in/sdks/3.4.0/lib/DMV-source.jar” “/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Flex” “/Applications/Adobe Flex Builder 3 Plug-in/sdks/3.4.0″

The blog changes the straight quotes to curly quotes, so, you’ll probably have to change that.