Updated December 8, 2014 Introduction: Animate a path with D3 Viewing location data that varies through time on a static map is fun, but viewing it on an animated map is a lot more fun. Recently, online map lovers were excited by Chris Whong’s Day in the Life of a NYC Taxi map in which […]
Continue reading →I have learned a lot by reading Chris Whong‘s techblog about how he created the fun app NYC Taxis: A Day in the Life. One particularly interesting tidbit he described was how to extract the points and polylines from the JSON output of Google directions. He does a nice job of describing the details and […]
Continue reading →mgcv (with a little style)We use the R library mgcv for modeling environmental data with generalized additive models (GAMs). It's a great library loaded with functionality but we often find that the default diagnostic plots are uninspiring. The partial residual plots, in particular, are functional but not pretty and the residuals are almost invisible. This post would be much […]
Continue reading →Several months ago MapBox added a blog post to their site discussing vector tiles. As part of the post they had some fun examples including one based on comic books and one based on pirate treasure maps (created by AJ Ashton). Here are the thumbnails from that page. For other nice examples see the gallery. […]
Continue reading →As readers likely know putting your data online as interactive visualizations can be a lot of work. We like to use D3, Highcharts and the Google visualization API but all of these tools require some serious programming. When you’re building a website with custom data visualization the effort might make sense, but when you have […]
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