Topic Archive: Visualization

Visualizations & Election Year Coverage

Ivan Moscoso, Friday, January 4, 2008 @ 12:52 pm

The New York Times has an interesting campaign event flash-based interactive map (link from the image on the right) which works out to be easy on the eyes.

The animations are not that useful, but what I find most curious about this map is comparing the relative frequency of candidate visits to areas of the country.  Knowing something about each candidate, and all politics aside, it tells you something about their election year strategies, or lack thereof.

Nicely done.

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MXGraph - Direct Manipulation Graph Component

Dietrich Kappe, Tuesday, June 13, 2006 @ 4:52 pm

Via Ajaxian: JGraph has release MXGraph, a direct manipulation visio-like beast. The web site says it's a thin-client component on top of JGraph (if you're not familiar with it, it is a -- shocking -- Java desktop visio-like beast). It has some nice things in it, such as a nice marquee selection tool and draggable everything. There are some small defects, like drag from the pallette not working quite right. Still, a very impressive piece of code (even if the code is obfuscated).

JGraph is open source, but some of the cooler stuff, like advance automatic layout, comes in the commercial Pro version. It'll be interesting to see what the licensing terms for the MXGraph component ends up being.

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