David Huynh wrote: > Tim Churches wrote: >> Joern Clausen wrote: >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> I just recently learned about Timeline and I am very impressed. I used >>> it right away to enhance my shot at the hello-world example of mashups, >>> my Google-Maps-Earthquake visualiser. You can find the new version here >>> >>> http://www.oe-files.de/gmaps/usgseq-timeline.html >>> >> Very nice! As are many of the other examples that have been posted to >> this list. Here is another one, still under development: >> >> http://www.oshca.org/healthdir/foss_health.html >> > Very nice! > >> I am asking people who want to have their software included to email me >> the relevant data as a snippet of JSON code, which I just paste into the >> master JSON data file after a quick quality assurance check. But I am >> sure slicker, more distributed mechanisms for updating the data file(s) >> are possible >> > We have a way to connect Exhibit to Google Spreadsheets (and there's > some work on EditGrid, too) so that you can manage your data in online > spreadsheets, using whatever mechanisms they already have to let several > people collaborate on the same data.
I couldn't get the Google Spreadsheets link to work properly in teh very limited time I had/have available to set this us - but I sure with more fiddly I will in the future. But people are also curiously reluctant to sign up for Google accounts (I've got about 27 myself...). >> Which makes me think that a meta-Exhibit, an Exhibit of other Exhibits, >> might be nice. On the SIMILE Exhibit web site? >> > > I'm curious-- have you considered using other technologies/services like > Google Base, Ning, ManyEyes, and then the new buzzing FreeBase to > manage, visualize, and publish your data? If you have, then why are you > not using them in this case? Just curious :-) Thanks. Google Base consider too commercial, the others I've not heard of - I'll investigate. But wanted to use Exhibit and Timeline because I wanted to gain experience with them prior to building them into the reporting ssyetm of NetEpi, which is our open source software for field epidemiology and public health (think communicable disease outbreaks and fighting flu pandemics) - in a month or two I hope. Will knock users socks off, I suspect - a fabulous way to browse and visualise outbreak and epidemic data on suspected and proven cases of disease and their contacts (network/graph visualisation in Exhibit as has been suggested by someone else would be fab for this application as well, BTW, as would simple time series charts (where x-axis is successive time periods and y axis is count of events in a time period, displayed as multiple lines or as multiple bars, grouped by type etc - just in case you were wondering what to do after the Scatterplots... such time-series graphs also great for financial, sales and industrial process monitoring data). Regards, Tim C _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
