Comments on: Look at My Neato Lollipop Chart – Widgenie http://flowingdata.com/2008/08/27/look-at-my-neato-lollipop-chart-widgenie/ Strength in Numbers Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:47:02 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jerome http://flowingdata.com/2008/08/27/look-at-my-neato-lollipop-chart-widgenie/#comment-14028 jerome Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:44:33 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=929#comment-14028 the point of premium visualization web apps is to offer relevant visualization types that don't exist in traditional tools, in a format which is compatible with web publishing, and in a way that takes advantage of an interactive environment. so how does widgenie fare? there's nothing really new about the types compared to, say, many-eyes. the technical solution used, flash hosted on their server and easily embeddable, is IMO the best. I have issues with interactivity though. I find the animations annoying. There's no point in having an animated graph if it doesn't deliver something a static graph couldn't. Also I find the style too glossy. That wouldn't be a problem if it were possible to select styles and keep a more sober approach, but that wasn't possible when I last tested the service which was a while ago. that being said I see lots of potential in the service if those glitches were ironed out. the point of premium visualization web apps is to offer relevant visualization types that don’t exist in traditional tools, in a format which is compatible with web publishing, and in a way that takes advantage of an interactive environment.

so how does widgenie fare? there’s nothing really new about the types compared to, say, many-eyes. the technical solution used, flash hosted on their server and easily embeddable, is IMO the best. I have issues with interactivity though. I find the animations annoying. There’s no point in having an animated graph if it doesn’t deliver something a static graph couldn’t. Also I find the style too glossy. That wouldn’t be a problem if it were possible to select styles and keep a more sober approach, but that wasn’t possible when I last tested the service which was a while ago.

that being said I see lots of potential in the service if those glitches were ironed out.

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