Protovis
Protovis composes custom views of data with simple marks such as bars and dots. Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to simplify construction. Protovis is free and open-source, provided under the BSD License. It uses JavaScript and SVG for web-native visualizations; no plugin required (though you will need a modern web browser)! Although programming experience is helpful, Protovis is mostly declarative and designed to be learned by example. Protovis is no longer under active development.The final release of Protovis was v3.3.1 (4.7 MB). This project was led by Mike Bostock and Jeff Heer of the Stanford Visualization Group, with significant help from Vadim Ogievetsky. Updates June 28, 2011 - Protovis is no longer under active development. September 17, 2010 - Release 3.3 is available on GitHub. May 28, 2010 - ZOMG! Getting Started
8 ways to be a better programmer in 6 minutes.
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Raphaël—JavaScript Library
markItUp! 2.0 - A jQuery universal markup editor - Coming when it's done.
prefuse | interactive information visualization toolkit
The New Boston » Java
A true story about survival in the Adirondack Mountains. The park covers 6.1 million acres, a land area greater than Vermont, or than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Glacier, and Great Smoky Mountains National Parks combined. The Adirondacks are also home to thousands of black bears, deadly snakes, and countless other dangers. Abandoned in the middle of the park with no survival experience and very few supplies, the entire journey was documented and filmed. Click here to watch the whole series! Welcome to thenewboston, the ultimate source for free video tutorials on the internet! There is also a new and improved thenewboston Official Forum. If you are ever on YouTube, make sure to check out my channel at Feel free to donate to help support thenewboston. I hope you all enjoy the website, and thank you to everyone for all of your support!
ADULLACT - Mutualisation de logiciels libres pour institutionnels
Popcorn.js | The HTML5 Video Framework
graphviz
The Macintosh port of the automated graph layout software, featuring a new document-based GUI, export to PDF and many more bitmap formats, full alpha transparency, native font and shapefile support and anti-aliasing. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, take Graphviz to the next level with our new product, Instaviz. We are now available on the App Store! Instaviz uses advanced shape recognition to turn your finger sketches into beautiful Graphviz graphs. Graphviz 1.12 (v11) won Best Mac OS X Open Source Product and was runner-up in Best Product to Mac OS X in the 2004 Apple Design Awards. With AT&T Graphviz, you don’t figure out the graph, the program does. dot , just describe which nodes should connect to which other nodes. You get these distinctives with the Mac OS X version: Document-based GUI with the Macintosh look-and-feel: Preview and zoom graphs, from 12.5% to 800%. . © Pixelglow Software.
10 Puzzle Websites to Sharpen Your Programming Skills
Solving programming puzzles is a fun way to develop your logical and problem solving abilities. Also, when you’re familiarizing yourself with a new programming language, solving puzzles for that language can help speed up the learning process. Here are the top 10 popular programming puzzle sites that will help test your thinking and improve your programming, problem solving, and logical thinking skills. 1. Programming Praxis Programming Praxis is a blog that includes a range of interesting problems with solutions usually available in several different programming languages. 2. CodeKata is a blog of programming puzzles written by Dave Thomas, who’s most famous for the groundbreaking book, Pragmatic Programmer. 3. TopCoder is an active programming community of developers who love to solve puzzles. 4. 5. Facebook has a collection of very challenging programming puzzles that–should you manage to solve them–could result in you getting a job at Facebook! 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 99 Prolog Problems
3 ways to define a JavaScript class
Introduction JavaScript is a very flexible object-oriented language when it comes to syntax. In this article you can find three ways of defining and instantiating an object. Even if you have already picked your favorite way of doing it, it helps to know some alternatives in order to read other people's code. It's important to note that there are no classes in JavaScript. 1. This is probably one of the most common ways. function Apple (type) { this.type = type; this.color = "red"; this.getInfo = getAppleInfo; } function getAppleInfo() { return this.color + ' ' + this.type + ' apple'; } To instantiate an object using the Apple constructor function, set some properties and call methods you can do the following: var apple = new Apple('macintosh'); apple.color = "reddish"; alert(apple.getInfo()); 1.1. In the example above you see that the method getInfo() of the Apple "class" was defined in a separate function getAppleInfo(). 1.2. 2. apple.color = "reddish"; alert(apple.getInfo()); 3. Summary
Tempo :: The tiny JSON rendering engine by TwigKit
Flashy Graphs Sans Flash [JavaScript & Ajax Tutorials]
Recently Alex gave us a solid introduction to the gRaphaël JavaScript graphing library in the Design View newsletter. We figured those of you who aren’t subscribed to the newsletter might enjoy this piece, so we’re publishing it here. And if you happen to get a kick out of it, why not head over to the newsletters section of sitepoint.com and subscribe yourself up for a free monthly dose of designery goodness. Without further ado, here’s Alex’s article. Take a quick look at the browser usage statistics below. How long did it take you to build a mental model of what the data was saying? Table 1. Five seconds? Now compare that with a pie chart of the same information, in Figure 1, “Browser usage pie chart” Figure 1. While it’s by no means impossible to understand the table, most of us can gain a better understanding with a cursory glance at the pie chart. Okay, so we all agree graphs are groovy, but how do we use them on the Web? While this is simple, the downsides are fairly obvious.
css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design
