Wing Yung made a great exhibit of games [1] recently. Then he wanted to
make some plots from the data but he noted that Exhibit wasn't good for
visualizing quantities [2] and used ManyEyes instead [3].
I thought there wasn't any reason why Exhibit couldn't do scatter plots.
Why do you need a whole web server just to draw a few dots? So here's a
quick shot at it:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/projects/video-games/2006top100games.htm
I hope Wing didn't mind me stealing his exhibit :-) It was great that I
didn't have to do any scraping. The joy of reusable data!
Actually, Exhibit can do faceted browsing on that plot while ManyEyes
can't ... Having the whole data model on the client side opens up many
possibilities.
David
[1] http://wingerz.com/2006top100games/
[2]
http://wingerz.com/blog/2007/02/19/looking-at-game-data-through-many-eyes/
[3]
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/S0H5nEsOtha632ks6WlqE2-
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