How to Learn Actionscript (Flash) for Data Visualization

Tips on how to learn this language for online visualization.

Organizing Your Music Visually

I'm not a music downloading monster like some, but for those who are, this might come in handy.

Use Flare Visualization Toolkit to Build Interactive Viz for the Web

Tom from Stamen Design and Hadley from the GGobi group kindly pointed me to the recently ported Flare visualization toolkit. Developed by Berkeley's Jeffrey Heer, Flare looks extremely useful …

What is the Best Way to Learn Flash/Actionscript for Data Visualization?

Maybe someone can help me with this. I'm shifting focus from static graphics (with Adobe Illustrator) and moving onto dynamic data visualization with Flash and Actionscript. Does anyone have any …

Useful Stat Resources for R and GRASS

UCLA Statistics has a pretty extensive list of resources on how to use R and GRASS. For those unfamiliar, R is a programming language and environment for statistical computing and …

My Love-hate Relationship with ArcGIS

ArcGIS can do a lot for you in terms of speeding up the mapping process, which is great, but here's my dilemma: do I really want to put in all …

Browser Statistics Firefox Add-on

I just added the Browser Statistics add-on to my Firefox browser. On the bottom left corner, it shows the number of kilobytes downloaded for the current page, total number …

Grabbing Weather Underground Data with BeautifulSoup

Weather Underground is a useful site and a fun place for weather enthusiasts. WU has a bunch of weather data (current and historical) from established weather stations, like at airports, …

Grab Data with templatemaker

Adrian Holovaty released templatemaker yesterday. Adrian is probably best known as the guy, featured on YouTube, who played the MacGyver theme song. So clearly, he a man a many talents. …

Macromedia Flash: First Impressions

Flash or Processing? For now, Flash. For quite a while now, I've been back on forth on my data viz weapon of choice -- Flash or Processing. With Processing free …