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- >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general >> > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
