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Wow! I'm still not sure what I'm looking at, but it sure looks cool. Good job crunching a shitload of information into a visually pleasing experience.
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th0m
Beechwold
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hey thanks guys, hehehe just playing around i guess. if this was for a job or something, it'd be less weird, and have like a story to it. as a bonus, if you go to the vimeo page there's my brother & i at a piano recital sometime in the late 80's or maybe early 90's ... :P anyway, was fun to play around with this stuff.
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DavidF
Elysium Fields
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th0m wrote >>
hey thanks guys, hehehe just playing around i guess. if this was for a job or something, it'd be less weird, and have like a story to it. as a bonus, if you go to the vimeo page there's my brother & i at a piano recital sometime in the late 80's or maybe early 90's ... :P anyway, was fun to play around with this stuff.Wow. I was totally blown away by this! It was weird, wonderful, and strangely moving. Great work.
(and now I know I have a whole lot of posting to do this year :)
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Bear
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Nicely done. Using time to zip through the treemap histograms in particular gives a sense both of the overall magnitude of the site and of the distributions of respondents across items in a way that's hard to convey. Also says a lot that, although I'm among the top ten posters, I stopped the histogram animation dozens of times on different threads and never saw my own name once.
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th0m
Beechwold
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Bear wrote >>
Nicely done. Using time to zip through the treemap histograms in particular gives a sense both of the overall magnitude of the site and of the distributions of respondents across items in a way that's hard to convey. Also says a lot that, although I'm among the top ten posters, I stopped the histogram animation dozens of times on different threads and never saw my own name once.hey thanks for posting this, this is exactly what i was hoping to achieve with that, so that makes me really glad to have that come across. do you do treemaps ever? this was all java and python, but somewhere i have an excel plugin, and was curious to know if you had any other ways.
also, the sense that heavy posters would be more prominent was also surprising to me too, there are like lots of micro-conversations centered around narrow topics or events that seem to outweigh all the regulars, but i haven't dug into it.
jmak -- heheh you know.... you get used to it. i don't even see the code. all i see is blonde, brunette, redhead...
davidf -- see above, but whatever contribution you make i'm sure is appreciated by those reading it. i wouldn't be too concerned, at least i find even the heavy posters don't see it as a race or anything.
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Bear
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th0m wrote >>
do you do treemaps ever? this was all java and python, but somewhere i have an excel plugin, and was curious to know if you had any other ways.I haven't, but they sure kick pie charts' asses given how hard it is for people to compare the areas of two wedges of a circle, so I'm going to dig around and try them out.
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th0m
Beechwold
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here's that excel plugin:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/3f3ed95e-26d8-4616-a06c-b609df29756f/default.aspx
once you wrap your brain around the format it is looking for, and realize you probably don't need half the things it does, it is pretty easy. here are some other links
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Bear
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And a great example that I just ran across (off-topic but very cool):
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/01/us/budget.html
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10sun
Columbus, OH
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Bear wrote >>
And a great example that I just ran across (off-topic but very cool):
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/01/us/budget.htmlFirst thing:
Zoom down to the bottom right corner.
Explore everything that is going on down there.
Spend some time, explore each budget expenditure.
Then click zoom out.
I did that and was simply awestruck at how much we are spending on shit.
We spend as much on the "Making Work Pay Tax Credit" as we do for the entire Department of Energy.It would make more sense to me to have a tree map that starts focused and slowly expands rather than letting you see the big picture and narrow your focus.
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th0m
Beechwold
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that's pretty interesting... like a bookmark-able treemap hrmm!!! i don't know, in general it is just hard to consume a lot of information, or to do that kind of minute vs. big picture thing... but actually zooming down once did indeed correct my frame of reference as to possibly how much money that all is.
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michaelcoyote
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th0m wrote >>
that's pretty interesting... like a bookmark-able treemap hrmm!!! i don't know, in general it is just hard to consume a lot of information, or to do that kind of minute vs. big picture thing... but actually zooming down once did indeed correct my frame of reference as to possibly how much money that all is.I like the button to hide discretionary spending. By removing some of the data, you actually get a better idea of how the budget was worked out for the year.
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