Tag Archives: data visualization
Dex on OSX
It was a painful experience, but I have confirmed that Dex 0.6d works on OSX. First, I downloaded the Dex installation. It then notified me that I needed a 1.7 or later version of the JDK to run. I expected … Continue reading
D3JS Parallel Lines and Football
The Parallel Lines view is quickly becoming one of my favorite tools to show data with many dimensions. It’s ability to express many dimensions across vertical axis is quite powerful. What makes this visualization even more powerful is the fact … Continue reading
More on Motion Charts
I have made meager progress this weekend in the way of coding. I mostly hung out and rested for a tough upcoming week at work. However, I did make some progress on motion charts. Hopefully some of the minor … Continue reading
The Porcupine Chart
In my last post I mentioned that Dex 0.6 will be capable of producing three dimensional charts and graphs. At least a couple right now. This is overkill for normal purposes such as viewing Bob’s sales figures versus that of … Continue reading
The Scatterplot Matrix
Scatterplot matrices have always been an effective way to view one distribution versus another. The next version of Dex will also have this capability. In a scatterplot matrix, numerical values are graphed versus one another. In the following scatterplot, we … Continue reading
Plugging Along
In case you’ve been wondering. I’m plugging along with Dex 0.6. I’m spending a lot of time rewriting the documentation and have decided to use DokuWiki to keep it up to date. Rather than having to worry about security, I … Continue reading
Upcoming Dex 0.5 release
It’s been a long time between updates so I thought I’d do some explaining. I’ve been diligently working on Dex. However, some features required JavaFX 2.2 which was only released a week or so ago. I still need some time … Continue reading
Dex Tutorials and Demonstrations Are Available
I have a few online tutorials that show some basic functionality within Dex which are hosted on YouTube. Tutorial #1 : The Basics Tutorial #2 : Visualizations Tutorial #3 : Useful Components
Visualizing Minnesota Education By Race and Gender
The Minnesota State Demographic center created an interesting contest around visualizing the educational attainments of the state. So I thought that Dex might be useful in producing some visualizations with the data. After looking at the data, I chose … Continue reading
Sankey Diagrams
I really love Sankey diagrams for showing flow and conveying a sense of proportion. I just added this facility into Dex, more detail in a later blog entry. Some live examples can be found here: Example 1 Example 2 – … Continue reading
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