I’ve long been a sucker for the polar area/coxcomb/rose charts popularized by Florence Nightingale. These multivariate charts can show ordered or unordered categorical data. As noted in an Economist piece on influential information graphics,
As with today’s pie charts, the area of each wedge is proportional to the figure it stands for, but it [...]
posts tagged 'charting'
Oct 21 2008
Nightingale’s roses in ActionScript 3
Jun 22 2008
seeing the plate
I’m really digging the Boston Globe’s recent visualization tracking Manny Ramirez’s hunt for 500 home runs (reached on May 31st).
This cool app answers seemingly every question about when and how Manny hit his home runs…except for the one I’m most interested in: where on the plate is Manny most likely to hit a [...]
Nov 30 2007
TimeSeriesGraph — now with flags!!
I’ve made a few changes to my AS3 Time Series Graph charting class. The biggest is the addition of flagging. Now you (the Flash programmer using the TimeSeriesGraph class) can easily add flags to your application’s chart (much like on the Google Finance charts, upon which TimeSeriesGraph is based).
It’s easy. To add [...]