Pivot as a Silverlight control? Sounds good! It’s a neat idea to deliver a visualization front-end as a multimedia control that can be integrated with your website. As I stumble upon various websites which obviously have databases as back-ends, I often wonder why a search still returns a list of items divided into pages, why [...]
I gave a tutorial on four popular graphics/visualization toolkits (Prefuse, Flare, Processing and Protovis) in John’s InfoVis class today. Each of the tools, while enabling and facilitating the design and construction of visual interfaces in certain dimensions, imposes limitations and constraints on others. The greatest strength of Prefuse and Flare is that you can achieve [...]