Lee Byron made a really cool visualization algo a while ago that's been making the rounds on the internet and NYT. I couldn't find any code for it, so I went ahead and wrote some.
I'm not totally sure how much real value it adds to the data other than making it look super-nice. Maybe that's the only way to get people to pay attention to it, though. -shrug- For comparison here's some data from ManyEyes - Humanitarian aid to a few countries over time. I mashed in a legend from my last post :P
It's a bit blurry (I didn't touch things up in Illustrator), but not to bad for an hour and a half of work.
Code: streamGraph_wrapper.m, plotStackedGraph.m
Not well commented, but short enough to figure out I hope.
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Stream Graph Code
Posted by Ian at 7/30/2009 11:36:00 PM
labels: procrastination, projects, visualization
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Wonderful!
Stumbled on this post by chance and I've been playing with the code a couple of minutes. The code has a couple of quirks to fix before it works as it is but the results are very nice!
Hey b4silio, glad to see it's getting some use! Quirky is probably a good way to describe my code. :P
Hi, im very interested in this code, b4silio did you fix the little quirks??, i havent be able to execute it, any help will be great!!!
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