http://www.forestandthetrees.com Data Visualization with Flex and Flash Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:47:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I love this Megashark infographic and the clip from the movie that inspired the infographic http://www.forestandthetrees.com/2010/02/13/mega-shark-infographic/ 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. http://www.forestandthetrees.com/2010/01/19/vote-today-for-martha-coakley/ 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 ... http://www.forestandthetrees.com/2009/10/19/intro-to-flex-charting-talk-weds-oct-28/ 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. http://www.forestandthetrees.com/2009/09/30/data-posters/ 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. http://www.forestandthetrees.com/2009/09/12/hans-rosling-video/ 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 ... http://www.forestandthetrees.com/2009/09/11/flex-sdk-3-4-extracting-datavisualization-source/ Just saw this post from Matt Chotin. Looks like no big changes to the Flex Charts, which is a bummer. However, I also came across this post (easy axis inversion in 4), which leads me to believe some changes have been made. I'd love to see a complete list of ... http://www.forestandthetrees.com/2009/09/09/flash-builder-4-datavisualization-update/ Michelle over at New England Institute of Art asked me to be part of a class that was covering freelancing. So, Dale Cruse and I talked for a while about our experience. Here's the presentation which served as talking points for me and Dale. http://www.forestandthetrees.com/2009/07/25/freelancing-panel/ This has been blogged a few different places. But, it's really exciting. The Federal government not only made a dashboard to illustrate how IT dollars are being spent, but, also provides the data to the public. Sure, the dashboard isn't the best w/ gauges and 3d effects, but, whatever. Government ... http://www.forestandthetrees.com/2009/07/02/federal-it-dashboard/ 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. ... http://www.forestandthetrees.com/2009/06/29/rotating-text-without-embedding-fonts/