Tag Archives: visualization
Introduction Eventually, during the course of one’s programming career, we encounter a task which requires a high degree of complexity and configurability. This task is cannot be easily expressed in the available languages. XML and property configuration files will fall … Continue reading
Still Plugging
It’s 1:30 AM. I have to work early in the morning, and I’m still plugging away at code. I can’t stop. I’m on a roll. My dad always said that “Every now and then, even a blind squirrel finds an … Continue reading
Dex Tutorial #4: The Wealth of Employees
This is the 4th installment Dex tutorials. It gives a glimpse of what’s to come in the upcoming 0.5 release as well as a real analysis based on the World Data Bank. This is the same data that Hans Rosling’s … 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
Dex 0.4 Released!
Dex 0.4 has been released and includes an easier installation as well as the features described in the 2 earlier blogs. You can download it here.
Dex 0.4: Stuff I Forgot To Mention
Stuff I Forgot To Mention Last blog post I was in a rush to take my daughter to the movies. I forgot to mention a few important upcoming additions. Windows Installer Dex 0.4 will have a Windows installer. After 0.4, … Continue reading
Upcoming Dex 0.4 Release
What’s New In Dex 0.4 I just thought I’d take some time to cover some of the upcoming changes in Dex 0.4. There is a handful of new components and a new visualization called the Hive Plot. However, most of … Continue reading
Basic Garbage Collection Analysis
Performance Problems I am a small cog in a large company which has adopted Java in a big way. I am often called in for firefighting activities across Java environments I have never seen before. Most of the issues are … Continue reading
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