Charts

[Newark Museum]

What are people using for Charts: FusionCarts or Google Charts? and
how would you implement them? Are there any "How To's"?

Thanks
Raymond

[Ed Bachta]

We implemented our first batch of charts using XML/SWF Charts:
http://www.maani.us/xml_charts/

More recently, we have been using Google Charts instead.

The charts that we have don't display data from Dashboard nodes,
however. They poll external data sources such as traffic sensor data
in a database. The way to implement this is to create a Non-Valued
item that doesn't update, and then use the Full HTML input format to
embed a flash object or leverage javascript. We implement the database
access in php scripts.

The new framework that we're working on will have much better charting
integration.

[Musebrarian]

Raymond,

I think there was an earlier post on using FusionCharts, but I think there would be need to be some work by the community on actually integrating them into the Dashboard template.

I'm not running a production-level dashboard but would be happy to talk about other visualization tools I'm using. Some of these might fit into an automated workflow but others would be more hands on.

Here's our paper that discusses some of our explorations:
Urban, R. et al., Designing and Developing a Collections Dashboard. In J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds). Museums and the Web 2010: Proceedings. Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics. Published March 31, 2010. Consulted July 13, 2011. http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/papers/urban/urban.html

I also have some slides on Slideshare from some of our talks: http://www.slideshare.net/musebrarian/cultural-heritage-information-dashboards

The IMA have been focused on process kinds of information (visitors, etc.), our work looks a little more closely about how to represent collections themselves.

Cheers,
Richard Urban
rju...@illinois.edu

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[zzwebmaster]

I think I now understand how this would work. But what about this idea:

I can upload an XML file through the Dashboard. Have my chart program get the data from the uploaded file (which is located in the "files" folder on the server) I believe this should work. One problem which I think is another version issue but not a big one. When you attach a file two check boxes appear with no labels. The first check box is unchecked the second is checked what are they? How do I delete a file.

Thank you;
Raymond

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[Newark Museum]

Does anyone have any sample code using any chart software inside the
Dashboard. I would like to use an external XML to display the chart.
I believe I am having a path issue using FusionCharts.

Raymond

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[Musebrarian]

Hi Raymond,

I'm not familiar with the other charting modules available for Drupal, but there are a number of other visualization programming kits that we've looked at.

* protovis.org (there is some discussion on the Drupal forums about a protovis plugin)
* processing.org (processing Drupal module: http://drupal.org/project/processing)
* Javascript InfoVis Toolkit (http://thejit.org/) (experimental Drupal module: http://drupal.org/sandbox/mrhanlon/1076050)

In our workshop we were using an experimental version of ManyEyes called ManyEyes wikified that was able to consume JSON and other formatted data published through a Google Docs spreadsheet.

Richard

[zzwebmaster]

After fighting with the code all day I was able to get it to work. I
found that the sample code from FusionCharts was written wrong.

I need this to be simple and to add another layer of applications that
people would have to learn is something I would like to avoid.

I found that I can now direct the Flash to point to the "Files" folder
which is where all dashboard files are uploaded to so I can have users
"edit" their content (Not update) and it will replace the existing file.

Thank you for your help!