Tag Archives: Flex
Adding hints to Flex 3 MXML tags
ColdFusion tags can be annotated with the hint attribute, effectively creating a surrogate for single line comments. This is something I’ve wanted to be able to do in MXML for a while, and I’m glad to see the Gumbo specs include this feature in the form of private attributes. If you can’t wait for Flex [...]
HeatMap added to Google Code Repository
I’ve started a Google Code repository for all of my little experiments. At the moment it just has the HeatMap component, but — baring any unforeseen circumstances — it will soon flourish. You can check it out here.
HeatMapping the Spread of WalMart
I recently came across a post on FlowingData with a visualization showing the growth of the WalMart chain over the years. It’s very well done, but all those icons really clutter up the map. The fact that they’re semi-transparent makes it possible to distinguish the dense areas from the sparse ones, but it’s difficult to [...]
How to make heat maps in Flex
Last semester I worked with Darya Filippova, Joonghoon Lee, Andreea Olea, and Krist Wongsuphasawat on a project for Ben Shneiderman’s Information Visualization course. We took a subset of the accident data collected by the CATT Lab and built a tool to help figure out why certain stretches of road have a higher number of accidents [...]
How to check if you’re running a debug swf