10 Useful Flash Components for Graphing Data By Jacob Gube Flash is an excellent technology for dealing with data visualization. It being client-side, it can reduce the amount of work your server has to perform in order to generate graphs and charts. Because of its robust ability in dealing with sleek and fluid animation and complex user interactivity, Flash is an excellent web and (and even desktop) application technology for dealing with graphing data. In this article, you will find ten excellent Flash components that will help you in building stunningly attractive, complex, and interactive data visuals. These components will help you create an assortment of graphs and charts to aid in presenting otherwise boring and stale numerical data. 1. Open Flash Chart is an open source Flash-based graphing and charting solution developed using ActionScript 3 and compiled using Flex. Live Demonstrations: Open Flash Chart 2. XML/SWF Charts is a powerful Flash component for creating interactive graphs and charts. 3. zxChart 4. amCharts 5. 6. 7.
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Introduction XML/SWF Charts is a simple, yet powerful tool to create attractive charts and graphs from XML data. Create an XML source to describe a chart, then pass it to this tool's flash file to generate the chart. The XML source can be prepared manually, or generated dynamically using any scripting language (PHP, ASP, CFML, Perl, etc.) XML/SWF Charts makes the best of both the XML and SWF worlds. XML provides flexible data generation, and Flash provides the best graphic quality. Features: Quick generation of charts and graphs from static or dynamic data (any scripting language) Full updates and data streaming without reloading the web page. Testimonials I just wanted to pass along how well your script worked for our stock performance page. Good work! This is amazing software. Just want to thank you for this wonderful upgrade. I purchased your product a couple days ago and first had time to sit down and work with it this morning. Wow, you are the best! Thanks for your great script. THIS ROCKS!
iPad vs Kindle to be tight battle News In a new survey on e-reader awareness and purchase intent Apple's iPad media tablet has inched ahead of Amazon's Kindle. iPad users, however, see the device as more than just an e-book reader - with strong demand for its web-browsing, email and iPod music and video capabilities. In the comScore survey consumers were asked several questions regarding their awareness of various e-book readers and tablet devices and their past purchase behaviour or intent to purchase these devices. The iPad rated highest in terms of consumers seriously considering purchase over the next three months at 15 percent of internet users, with the Kindle at 14 percent. The results showed very high awareness of the iPad out of the gate, with an aided awareness of 65 percent, exactly the same as that of the Amazon Kindle e-reader. The Amazon Kindle rated highest in terms of current device ownership at 6 percent of all Internet users, followed by Sony Reader at 4 percent. NEXT: Apple iPad usage intentions
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