Michael Flor's Blog

Charts and dashboards

michaelflor — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:00:51 +0000

Some links to blogs and sources:

Andrei Pandre’s blog!
See the screenshots.
A gallery of dashboards from Dundas.
dashboardinsight has articles, screenshots, etc.
data-visualization.alltop.com provides news and popular stories.

Jung – Java Universal Network/Graph Framework

michaelflor — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:16:23 +0000

The 2002 paper.
2007 paper on using JUNG for path identification in gene expression.

Related tools

Netsight is a tool for the visual exploratory data analysis of large-scale network and relational data sets. See also here and screenshots here.

Trees, Nets and Graphs for GUI interfaces

michaelflor — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:42:28 +0000

This is just a quick list of links to some interesting uses of trees, networks and graphs for GUI interfaces.

The site Visual Complexity has some of the most complete graph publications and an excellent preview.
Read the Visuale blog.
The Pearl is a nice blog dedicated to issues of data visualization.
Pearltrees is pretty neat. Note expansion modes in this video and the shrink/manipulate options shown in this video.
Microsoft Live Labs Pivot.

Some pointers: TED: “Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration?” (but see comments there).
Also read in this blogpost.
Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen (2006)

Tools

There are many tools and frameworks, for many programming languages.
This blog provides a nice listing (also, see comparative chart here). Another listing of visualization toolkits is found at vizsec.

Ok, some of the relevant Java tools go in here.

JUNG !!!. To cite their own description: the Java Universal Network/Graph Framework–is a software library that provides a common and extendible language for the modeling, analysis, and visualization of data that can be represented as a graph or network. It is written in Java, which allows JUNG-based applications to make use of the extensive built-in capabilities of the Java API, as well as those of other existing third-party Java libraries.
JGraph
JGraphT is focused on data structures and algorithms, and has compatibility with JGraph.

Javascript tools

Protovis, superseded by D3.js.
See their description, AP and examples.

Design …

michaelflor — Mon, 30 May 2011 00:39:24 +0000

This post is dedicated to all things about design – industrial, architectural, fashion, etc.

Design Buzz – a very interesting site dedicated to novelties in design. The y call it ‘design trendsetter’ – well maybe not trendsetter, but it allows one to follow and be updated on latest stuff. Here is one picture I liked:
G-living
Dome Guys builds geodesic domes for any occasion.
Desert Winds Eco Spa – Hot Design

Prague

michaelflor — Mon, 30 May 2011 00:29:02 +0000

So, we were thinking about a trip to the Czech Republic. Well, Prague, and maybe some other palces.

Here are some useful links.

Prague.tv – Prague’s citi guide. This one seems to have everything, and nicely designed too.
Tourist Portal of the Czech Republic. Comprehensive coverage of all regions. Prague section is
Hotels Prague is a pretty good site for finding accomodation in Prague.
A short and nice blog about Prague’s Public Transport, from Nile Guide.

more swing

michaelflor — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:50:21 +0000

http://zetcode.com/tutorials/javaswingtutorial/resizablecomponent/

http://zetcode.com/tutorials/javaswingtutorial/

http://zetcode.com/ebooks/javaswinglayout/

writtenpain

michaelflor — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:40:24 +0000

Amazing story, a high-school kid with writing difficulties and his struggle to get education.

2 easy pieces

michaelflor — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 04:28:17 +0000

One article from BBC, Staying innovative after being left for dead, 23 January 2011.

Discovering new things is at the heart of innovation, and that becomes harder and harder to do as companies become bigger. Bureaucracy starts to kick in as layers of management are formed and companies expand abroad.

And…

the formula for innovation is quite straightforward.
“It’s very simple,” he says. “You get the smartest people you can, you give them great facilities and you let them get on with it.”

The other is also from BBC, Why short sellers, and carpenter ants, are good for us, 11 March 2011.

RenderSnake

michaelflor — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:56:24 +0000

RenderSnake is a nice useful library for generating HTML in Java, featured on DZone.