Archive for January, 2010
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Disambiguation using siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com- Finding examples fo flare.prefuse usage
The problem with the flare prefuse library is that flare is a commonly used word - so searching for examples on google results in a lot of matches other uses of the word flare. A simple solution is to use site explorer to find links to the flare prefuse website - this naturally disambiguates the […]
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Data visualisation classification
I found this classification of different types of visualisations
data visualisation - numbers in a graph, pie chart, barchart, scatterplot (quantitative data)
information visualisation - interactive visual reprentation of information in order to improve cognition
concept visualisation - mindmaps and other representations of concepts (qualitative data)
strategy visualisation - company strategy - (I dont understand how this in […]
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Data visualisation continued
I decided to clean up the first animation that I had learned from the actionscript animation book. It can also be viewed here.
In the process I made some mistakes and learned a few things:
I extended the object model to be more a mathematical graph based model - with Nodes and Edges - […]
