Archive for tag: processing

Plotter: a tool to create bitmap charts for the web

21 December, 2009 (19:29) | data publishing, data visualization, tips, web sites | By: jerome

In the past couple of months, I have been busy maintaining a blog for OECD: Factblog. The idea is to illustrate topics on which we work by a chart which we’ll change regularly. So in order to do that, I’d have to be able to create charts of publishable quality. Excel screenshots: not a good [...]

Re: flowing data contest, code for my entry

15 December, 2008 (17:08) | charts, data visualization | By: jerome

Here is the processing applet with source code for my entry. The code is based on a charter program I’ve been working on and off for a while, which I’ll publish once it’s more polished. Select the applet then press a key to alternate between the 2 representations. The text file is the data, and [...]

Processing 1.0 released.

27 November, 2008 (13:08) | data visualization | By: jerome

Tuesday, Ben Fry announced on his blog that Processing 1.0 was released! I had a vague idea of was processing was about for a while, and thought it was not for me. I bought Ben Fry’s book by accident, because of its title and because I was generally interested on different opinions on how to [...]