Effective interactive visualization
July 3, 2010 6:52 AM Subscribe
Please help me learn about visualizing data on web pages in an interactive way.
I'm interested in making some simple visualizations of data and like the layout and style of the New York Times infographics.
Are these all done using Flash or are there some other techniques used? I'm toying with the idea of learning Flash, even though it is proprietary. What sorts of things should I learn in Flash? Are there alternatives to Flash that can achieve the same results?
The times of visualizations I would like to learn are mainly for displaying academic work.
Thanks
I'm interested in making some simple visualizations of data and like the layout and style of the New York Times infographics.
Are these all done using Flash or are there some other techniques used? I'm toying with the idea of learning Flash, even though it is proprietary. What sorts of things should I learn in Flash? Are there alternatives to Flash that can achieve the same results?
The times of visualizations I would like to learn are mainly for displaying academic work.
Thanks
I follow a blog that features many different infographics - Flowing Data. You can comb their archives for ideas and how-tos (mostly ideas), but I've narrowed down at least ONE getting started article.
Have not read the article since it was published, but could be a good starting point.
There's also an awesome visualization / instructional that was posted around the time of the Stanley Cup.
posted by kellygrape at 7:41 AM on July 3, 2010
Have not read the article since it was published, but could be a good starting point.
There's also an awesome visualization / instructional that was posted around the time of the Stanley Cup.
posted by kellygrape at 7:41 AM on July 3, 2010
Seconding Protovis as a way to get into interesting visualizations in Javascript. The example gallery is a good place to start.
posted by Nelson at 7:59 AM on July 3, 2010
posted by Nelson at 7:59 AM on July 3, 2010
Also check out the SIMILE project - they've got some good javascript-based visualization tools, especially where time-series data needs to be presented interactively.
posted by aberrant at 10:25 AM on July 3, 2010
posted by aberrant at 10:25 AM on July 3, 2010
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posted by Alterscape at 6:59 AM on July 3, 2010