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Panel
- Chris Bannon (twitter github web)
- AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog)
- Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Summer Camp)
- Joachim Larsen (g+ github website)
Discussion
- ComponentOne
- jQuery
- jQueryUI
- Wijmo
- ActiveX
- ASP.Net
- JQueryUI Widget Factory
- Wijmo-Open Source
- SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics
- Raster Graphics
- Older IE version
- VML
- Could be used to write simple games
- HTML Canvas
- HTML5
- Browsers can load SVG files
- Inline SVG
- SVG in CSS
- Raphaël
- Transforms/Animations
- All SVG elements are DOM elements
- Click on the Wijmo demo and inspect element
- SVG and inner elements aren’t all supported by jQuery
- Use the Raphael eventing features [link]
- AJ’s wrench example
- Fonts in SVG
- WOFF fonts
- SVG support in mobile browsers
- Android previous to Ice Cream Sandwich lack support for SVG
- FabricJS
- Flex
- Silverlight
- Challenger Explosion caused by poor visualizations
- http://cdnimg.visualizeus.com/thumbs/65/ee/bad,challenger,damage,data,disaster,edward,nasa,o,ring,statistical,temperature,thinking,tufte,visual,visualization-65eef6ff851b4c77b18c12dbdaee63ef_i.jpg
- http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2007/marapr/images/features/tufte/o_ring_rockets.jpg
- http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/27/was-space-shuttle-challenger-a-casualty-of-bad-data-visualization
- http://revcompany.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/challenger-disaster.gif
- Good developers make good data visualizations
- Think about what you’re trying to portray
- Use the axes reflect the scale of the differences and accurately represent changes
- On date/time things stick to your scale
- Indicate omissions
- Upload SVG graphic and get Raphael script back
- Link to bad data visualization blog
- Adobe Illustrator
- Right click SVG graphics and save to your machine
- 3D gaming should be in canvas
- Raster drawing (photography)
Picks
- Chris’ Profile Pic (AJ)
- The Hunger Games (books) (AJ)
- Google Wallet (Joachim)
- JSFiddle for using Raphael (Joachim)
- GeekBeat.tv (Chuck)
- Google Maps Cube Game (Chuck)
- Bass Drum of Death (Chris)
- Directive 51 (Chris)
- Inventing on Principle (video) (Chris)
- Urban chicken farming (Chris)
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