[ckan-discuss] Data.gov.uk Catalogue APIs Launch

Thu Oct 21 22:15:21 BST 2010

On 21 October 2010 17:49, Augusto Herrmann <augusto.herrmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, James!
>
> Welcome to the CKAN list.
>
> Congratulations for the work on the data.gov.uk catalogue and also for
> the great posting tutorial on the CKAN API!
>
> Since you mention javascript plotting libraries (jqPlot, RaphaëlJS),
> you might want to also try ProtoVis [1], which offers not only plots,
> but also some cool alternative types of visualization, such as stream
> graphs, bubble charts, force-directed layouts, sunbursts,
> circle-packing, treemaps and various types of tools for geospatial
> data on maps.

Yes, protovis is great, I've been using it for wheredoesmymoneygo.org
pure javascript visualization explorer:

<http://rufuspollock.org/wdmmg/explorer.html>

Still ironing out bugs but i've been very impressed with protovis so
far (one thing i still need to do is get IE support via svg.js ...)

Rufus