dlcohen1 wrote:
> FYI, http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/projects/video-games/ 
> 2006top100games.htm does not work with Safari Version 2.0.4 (419.3)  
> on Mac, but does work with Camino Version 2006091101 (1.0.3).  Under  
> Safari, the points appear on one horizontal row next to "Rating" and  
> no grid appears, and the y axis numbers do not appear correctly.   
> Looks great on Camino though.
>   
I noticed that it didn't work on Safari but didn't have time to fix the 
positioning code. Thanks for letting me know it works on Camino!

It's just a proof of concept for now so that people can unleash their 
imagination on it. I suppose the right way is to extract it out as an 
independent API (like Timeline) and perhaps use SVG instead of HTML.

David

> --
> David L. Cohen
>
> On Feb 22, 2007, at 10:48 PM, David Huynh wrote:
>
>   
>> 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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