[wdmmg-discuss] Pure javascript Where Does My Money Go? Spending Explorer

Fri Oct 8 16:39:41 UTC 2010

Hi,

With a bit more time this week to work on the the pure-javascript
visualization explorer (originally called 'sunburst'), I can report it
is now 'fully functional' and has has a new home at:

<http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/wdmmg-js/src/explorer.html>

Warning: won't work in IE and works best (i.e. fastest) in Chrome)!

Features:

  * True 'explorer': you can choose any set of breakdown 'keys' to visualize
  * Primary 'financial bubbles' view with interactive navigation into bubbles
    * Support for arbitrary depth of data 'tree' so you can keep
navigating down (though currently limited by user interface to select
at most 3 levels)
  * Multiple other visualizations including treemap, sunburst,
dendrogram and 'icicle'
  * Time support
  * View the source data in table or as json

I'm sure there's tons to improve especially on the usability (e.g.
should default labels have amounts in them?) so if you take a look
please let me know any feedback.

Some specific limitations:

  * Does not work in IE -- but hope to fix this using svg.js soon
  * Colours and general 'look' could be improved -- help wanted!
  * Occasional bugs e.g. weird redraws -- if you find one please let me know

Regards,

Rufus