On Tuesday 15 May 2007 19:29, David Huynh wrote: > Simon, have you had a chance to check out Exhibit? It seems related > to PRES 1.10.0 beta 2: > > http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/ > > Having had world enough and time... we then want some scatter plots, > too...
OK, questions: (i) Why is the data file a JavaScript array, rather than (e.g.) XML? Are there some specific (e.g. efficiency) reasons for doing that, or is that just the way you happened to do it? (ii) Have you played with any scenarios in which the user can modify or add to the data, and save it back? If so, how do you resolve issues where two different users are making modifications simultaneously? Must the locking granularity be at the level of the whole data set, or would it be possible to use some finer granularity? How would you produce a visual 'diff' of two data sets, or a user interface for resolving differences? > http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/projects/factbook/factbook-people >.html In this example, if you select e.g. 'EU' and 'LITERACY VS. EXPECTANCY', the data is highly clustered and hard to discriminate. It would be nice to be able to zoom the graph a la Google Map, or to change the scaling from linear to log. But... very interesting and promising. I confess I'm particularly going to study how you achieved the semi-translucent map pins! Cheers Simon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ ;; If God does not write LISP, God writes some code so similar to ;; LISP as to make no difference. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
