Archive: 'Visualization'

Flex and Google Maps

29Nov07

We’ve tentatively chosen two applications to run our visualizations: Adobe Flex, which would handle netMap and chronoMap, and Google Maps, which would run geoMap (probably with a Flex overlay).
The choice for netMap and chronoMap was a tough one. There are few nice, open source tools out there, including prefuse, Simile Timeline, and Simile Exhibit. All [...]

Display plans

04Aug07

When we started this project, we conceived of three displays:

an individuals display, which would identify personal influences on a particular
individual, including their relationships with their teachers, graduate school peers, colleagues at appointed institutions, and dissertation advisees and committee members.
an institutional display, which would show which philosophers worked and studied at a particular institution throughout the [...]