A dynamically data driven Adobe Flash ActionScript based interactive bubble chart showing the music genre breakdown for the NME’s Top Album charts from 1974 to 2010.
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Memory Jogger: Case Insensitve and “Like” MySQL queries.
Another one I keep having to remind myself how to do. If you want to do case insensitive SQL queries than just convert both target field and the string to the same case. SELECT * FROM ‘tableName’ WHERE UCASE(‘columnName’) = UCASE(“targetString”) If you want to use wild cards than use LIKE and % for wild [...]
Memory Jogger: Flash/Flex Tutorial: How to create a crossdomain xml file
It has been awhile since I have had to do anything with sandbox security and cross domain data loading. So that I don’t have to Google it the next time I need to remind myself, here is the first memory jogger – everything you need to know on creating crossdomain XML files can be found [...]
Posted in Memory Joggers Tagged Actionscript, Adobe Flash, Crosdomain.xml, sandbox security, XML 1 Comment
Number of WikiLeaks cables actually leaked to the public (so far).
I find it interesting that there seems to be little coverage of the actual number of WikiLeaks Cablegate cables/documents that have actually been released to the general public. When watching the evening news, listening to the radio or reading about this in the news the journalists seem to imply that the entire 250 thousand documents [...]
Posted in Data Visualisation Tagged Cable Gate, Cablegate, Infographics, Statistics, Visualizations, WikiLeaks 1 Comment
Flex data binding pitfalls: common misuses and mistakes
Another good article/tutorial from Adobe By Elad Elrom: Flex data binding pitfalls: common misuses and mistakes “Data binding—the process of passing the data in one object to another object automatically—is one of the most used and useful features when building Flex and Adobe AIR applications. At the same time, however, data binding can slow application [...]
Posted in Flash ActionScript Tagged Actionscript, adobe, Adobe Flash, demo, UX/UI Design Leave a comment
Adobe launches SDP demonstration prototype
Adobe have launched a SDP demonstration prototype which can be viewed here:
http://www.realtimetraderdesktop.com/
Posted in Data Visualisation, Flash ActionScript, Interactive Data, Rich Internet Applications Tagged adobe, air, demo, desktop, flash, lab49, linkedin, LiveCycle, sdp, trader Leave a comment
Link: Information Aesthetics
“Information Aesthetics is designed and maintained by Andrew Vande Moere, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia and at K.U.Leuven university, Belgium. His research interests include data visualization and visual design, from traditional screen-based interfaces, over “media architecture”, to more explorative, artistic and wearable applications. His teaching comprises interaction design, physical/wearable computing and 3D real-time multimedia.”
http://infosthetics.com/
Posted in Data Visualisation, Interactive Data, Links Tagged Data Visualisation, Infographics, Interactive Data, Visualizations Leave a comment
Link: The American Human Development Project
“The American Human Development Project is dedicated to stimulating fact-based public debate about and political attention to issues that affect people’s well-being and access to opportunity in the United States. The hallmark of this work is the American Human Development Index, a measure that paints a portrait of Americans today and empowers communities with a tool to track progress in areas we all care about: health, education, and income.”
http://www.measureofamerica.org/
Posted in Data Visualisation, Interactive Data, Links Tagged Actionscript, Adobe Flash, Data Visualisation, Interaction, Map, Statistics, UX/UI Design 1 Comment
WikiLeaks Cable Gate: the Visualizations and the Infographics
Information Aesthetics has a nice post listing the various interactives and data visualisation that have been produced to represent the WikiLeaks Cable Gate data. “There is the data, and there is the understanding. Somewhere in the middle, the communication. Also visual. See a list of current visualizations of the WikiLeaks Cable Gate data below.” Check [...]
Bubble Map
A dynamically data driven Adobe Flash ActionScript based interactive bubble map showing 20 years of US Labor and Unemployment statistics. Values can be viewed nationally, by state or by county.
Posted in Data Visualisation, Interactive Data, Lab Examples Tagged Actionscript, Adobe Flash, Data, Data Visualisation, Interaction, Interactive, Labor, Map, Statistics, Unemployment, UX/UI Design 3 Comments
