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Space-Time Analysis of Regional Systems
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visualization brainstorm #7

Closed sjsrey closed 12 years ago

sjsrey commented 12 years ago

xk, ps, jl lead brainstorming on visualization layer

pastephens commented 12 years ago

stars/gui/dispatch.py could provide simplified API calls for logic developers. It might provide a base class "Plot" that all other plots subclass. It might provide logic to select among alternate visualization toolkits available to the user and shipped by us.

xkang commented 12 years ago

I would suggest that different sub plots be put in separate source files for clarification purpose, instead of a comprehensive starsgui.py which might make it hard to organize. Moreover, since many temporal data are stored in the form of one time cross-section per file, it might be interesting to support working with multiple datasets and design new interaction and analysis methods to correlate data.

geoquant commented 12 years ago

For time series data, here's google's API:

http://code.google.com/apis/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/motionchart.html

geoquant commented 12 years ago

hey guys, what's our meeting schedule now? are we on the two week rotation? i showed up yesterday and didn't see a soul.

xkang: if you still want Tufte's book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, I'll have to jump drive it to you because the scanned file is too big!