[wdmmg-discuss] Sunburst visualization of WDMMG data using javascript protovis

Thu Sep 16 10:26:09 UTC 2010

Finding a bit more spare time on recent weekends the 'sunburst'
visualization has been substantially enhanced:

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

  * A completely new visualization (default) using nodelink which
gives quite a beautiful 'solar-system' style appearance
  * Ability to switch between visualizations
  * A functional time slider

It also looks like we can IE support (IE7 and IE8) using google's
svgweb js plugin [1] and IE9 natively supports SVG!

This is all being done with pure javascript (using jquery, jqueryui
and protovis).

Please take a look and let me know what you think (and if you run into issues!)

Regards,

Rufus

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/protovis-js/issues/detail?id=15

On 26 August 2010 16:25, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> Over the weekend I had a first stab at creating a pure javascript
> visualization of data from WDMMG data store:
>
> <http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/wdmmg-js/src/sunburst.html>
>
> This shows spending breakdown by department then region for 2008-2009
> and uses the protovis library. I should emphasize that I don't think
> Sunburst is probably the best view on this data. This is really an
> experiment to see how much can get done in pure javascript. At the
> moment it isn't too dynamic -- next steps are to allow clicking into
> particular slices and having a year slider (using jquery ui).
>
> What it does do is:
>
> * Load data live from the data store (Ajax)
> * Reformat it into relevant tree structure for protovis
> * Render it
> * It is also doing things like loading relevent keys and using human
> friendly names for things (e.g. Department for Work and Pensions
> rather than Dept039!).
>
> For those interested source code in playing around themselves source
> is here (obviously you can view the js files directly online as
> well!):
>
> <http://bitbucket.org/okfn/wdmmg-js>
>
> Rufus
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