http://forums.flowingdata.com/ Strength in Numbers en Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:19:51 +0000 http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/garamond-pens-revisited#post-1615 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:41:50 +0000 DHinNH 1615@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>I just saw the Garamond item too.</p> <p>Garamond is the official font of the company for which I work, exactly because it causes us to use less ink. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/garamond-pens-revisited#post-1614 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:50:27 +0000 nathany 1614@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>hehe, yes, but not nearly as cool-looking :) </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/garamond-pens-revisited#post-1613 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:44:13 +0000 edwcarney 1613@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Just saw the Garamond item (<a href="http://flowingdata.com/2010/01/29/save-pens-use-garamond-font" rel="nofollow">http://flowingdata.com/2010/01/29/save-pens-use-garamond-font</a>) today.</p> <p>I wrote some Perl script to read a BMP file of three fonts, all set to 24 point and displayed on a screen. The size of the BMP was identical in all three cases, so the position of the text within the BMP field made no difference as long as it did not impinge on the border of the image. The script reads the BMP file and counts the black pixels/white pixels and expresses the number of black pixels as a percentage of all pixels (black + white).</p> <p>I used the following text:<br /> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz<br /> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ<br /> 0123456789</p> <p>Here are the results in descending order of "ink usage."</p> <p>Font: Arial<br /> Percent of black = 11.975%</p> <p>Font: TimesRoman<br /> Percent of black = 8.360%</p> <p>Font: Garamond<br /> Percent of black = 6.062%</p> <p>Faster/cheaper than pens. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/tags-not-showing-up#post-1612 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:02:08 +0000 nathany 1612@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>taking another look, i think all tags are okay. could it be you're only seeing tags for the current year? </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/time-series-tweaks#post-1611 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:32:15 +0000 sunchess 1611@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>In my case, when i change timestamp, it add 5 min =) When i change 9:05 to 9:00 it becomes 9:10. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/time-series-tweaks#post-1610 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:27:11 +0000 nathany 1610@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>okay, i think i've fixed the bug. let me know if it's still not doing what you're expecting. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/how-woud-you-best-show-comparitive-position#post-1609 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:47:36 +0000 edwcarney 1609@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>I've put together a rather brute force approach.</p> <p>Find it here in PPTX and PDF form:</p> <p><a href="http://slhslinux.cla.umn.edu/Documents" rel="nofollow">http://slhslinux.cla.umn.edu/Documents</a></p> <p>The line is 20 cm long for ease of positioning.</p> <p>Edward Carney<br /> Research Assoc.<br /> University of Minnesota, USA </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/non-ascii-characters-in-all-the-entries-got-corrupted#post-1608 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:43:40 +0000 sunchess 1608@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>@Nathany,thanks. By the way, i asked urbansheep (he uses russian too) — all works fine if "action" word is in english. Value can be russian.</p> <p>So string "books Большая советская энциклопедия" will work, but if i write action word "books" in russian — there will be 500 error.</p> <p>Hope it helps. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/non-ascii-characters-in-all-the-entries-got-corrupted#post-1607 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:46:59 +0000 nathany 1607@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>@sunchess - darn. should be back to normal now. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/non-ascii-characters-in-all-the-entries-got-corrupted#post-1605 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:42:55 +0000 sunchess 1605@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Well, I try to post in russian, and now i see 500 error =) My account is gotrackyourself. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/how-woud-you-best-show-comparitive-position#post-1604 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:32:07 +0000 krees 1604@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>It would be great if you could post the actual data. I always find it helps me to play around with the full dataset. Then I can come up with a visual after I try out a few different options. Is that possible? </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/learnings-from-scada#post-1603 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:21:28 +0000 jufemaiz 1603@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Hi all,<br /> I'm just wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of papers concerning SCADA systems as a starting point for data visualisation. Obviously this relates far more to real time information (transit systems, power/gas systems, aviation, maritime etc) than to data review post-event(s), however this is an area I have more interest in.</p> <p>Cheers all,<br /> Joel </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/non-ascii-characters-in-all-the-entries-got-corrupted#post-1602 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:52:16 +0000 nathany 1602@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>@sunchess - i'm not sure to be honest. it should work theoretically. if it ends up giving you a 500 error again, just let me know. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/non-ascii-characters-in-all-the-entries-got-corrupted#post-1601 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:38:55 +0000 sunchess 1601@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>So now i can post in russian? I tried some time ago, and it was 500 error. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/how-woud-you-best-show-comparitive-position#post-1600 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:00:50 +0000 sholland 1600@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>I'm working on a presentation to our school district, which is planning on closing a number of smaller elementary schools and combining them into a mega-elementary school. </p> <p>I am looking for a way of showing the board, during a presentation we make to them, just what this does to our school size in comparison to the other schools in our province. </p> <p>(Yes, at the moment it's in PowerPoint.)</p> <p>I've been looking for ways of simply representing this, while at the same time showing the number of schools and the relative positive with some accuracy. So help me, the cyan thing and magenta thing from Data Underload #9 seems to be the best idea as yet! However, I do want to check to see if anyone else has some great ideas or examples.</p> <p>Sample slides at the moment:<br /> Our school Now<br /> Currently have 315 students, in English and French<br /> This makes us 359th in size in the province – 35% of schools are larger<br /> with 6s and 7s back<br /> In 2010/11, with return of grade 6s and 7s and projected kindergarten numbers, we would have 421 students, in English and French<br /> This makes us 163rd in size in the province – 16% of schools are larger</p> <p>Take away French<br /> Let’s now take away our French students – we have 273 left, English only<br /> This makes us 461st in size in the province – 45% of schools are larger</p> <p>Add School A<br /> If we add School A’s projected 2010/11 with 6s and 7s, we would have 470 students, English only<br /> This makes us 93rd in size in the province – 9% of schools are larger</p> <p>Add School B<br /> If we then add School B's projected 2010/11 with 6s and 7s, we would have 561 students, English only</p> <p>This makes us 30th in size in the province – 3% of schools are larger<br /> Assume 50% of French students transfer to English<br /> A number of French students would not be travelling out of our area to go to school, for various reasons.<br /> If we assume 50% of these students would transfer to English track, we would have 635 students, English only<br /> This makes us 6th in size in the province – 0.5% of schools are larger </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/500-error-on-action-logs/page/3#post-1599 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:21:11 +0000 nathany 1599@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>@thunderkat - try again... something that you entered yesterday caused the problem. i'm going to fix this next week. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/500-error-on-action-logs/page/3#post-1598 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:07:29 +0000 thunderkat 1598@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>still happening mate. locked out. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/data-viz-and-web-interactives-for-pbs-news-series-nyc#post-1597 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:36:34 +0000 hirmes 1597@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>NEED TO KNOW is a news and current affairs media project from WNET.ORG, the leading provider of news, current affairs and documentary content for public television. Premiering in the spring of 2010, it will combine a major 24/7 online platform and a weekly, one-hour primetime television broadcast, in magazine format, each Friday evening.</p> <p>We are seeking an interactive programmer to work with our editorial team to create online data visualizations and RIAs. The qualified candidate will build both front-end applications and data-mining tools with the ultimate goal of taking data sets and research from our reporters and producing content that informs, surprises, and enlightens our users.</p> <p>The candidate is:</p> <p>- A web coder with a strong design sense<br /> - An experienced developer (3+ years) with a wide range of front-end programming skills (Flash/AS3/Flex, dHTML/jQuery, CSS) as well as experience integrating with the backend (LAMP, Ruby, Python)<br /> - Used to crunching large datasets and turning them into beautiful, interactive visualizations<br /> - Confident in your strong UI/UX skills<br /> - Comfortable with design tools (Photoshop, Illustrator) and rapid wireframing apps (OmniGraffle)<br /> - Experienced with visualization packages for Flash as well as other platforms (Flare, Many Eyes)<br /> - Experienced with APIs<br /> - Someone who can work closely and collaborate with non-technical staff as well as other coders<br /> - Proud of your existing, publicly available portfolio</p> <p>You like to:</p> <p>- Experiment with new APIs from news organizations and .govs<br /> - Follow the latest developments in data visualization<br /> - Obsessively tweak your pixel-perfect projects while still shipping on time</p> <p>To apply, candidates should submit resume, cover letter and salary history via email. Responses should list the title of the position for which you are applying in the subject line of your email. Please do not send links to online resumes.</p> <p>WNET.ORG<br /> Recruiting Manager<br /> 450 West 33rd Street, 6th Floor<br /> New York, NY 10001-2605<br /> Fax: 212-560-1350<br /> E-mail: <a href="mailto:jobs@wnet.org" rel="nofollow">jobs@wnet.org</a></p> <p>Qualified candidates only; no phone calls please. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.</p> <p>WNET.ORG IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/time-series-tweaks#post-1596 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:57:31 +0000 stantrack 1596@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>I'm still experiencing this bug. At first it seemed to just reset the time to noon, but now I think it consistently subtracts seven hours from the time. =) </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/non-ascii-characters-in-all-the-entries-got-corrupted#post-1595 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:58:58 +0000 urbansheep 1595@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Yay, thanks! Everything's cool now. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/time-series-tweaks#post-1594 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:23:53 +0000 nathany 1594@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>hmm, really? i haven't done anything yet. but hey, whatever works :) </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/time-series-tweaks#post-1593 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:27:33 +0000 New High Score 1593@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>this SEEMS ok now, thanks! </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/interactive-data-visualization-help-needed#post-1592 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:28:36 +0000 frogdesign 1592@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>The short and sweet version of what we are offering and what we are looking for is...</p> <p>- we are offering an initial one to two week gig (with potential for more work)<br /> - you have an interactive component<br /> - you can work closely with a design team for understanding problem space<br /> - you should be able to work in Manhattan<br /> - you should be fast and able to explore variant solutions<br /> - you should have processing or flash (though for integration we probably prefer flash)</p> <p>We are at <a href="http://www.frogdesign.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.frogdesign.com</a>. And if you are ready to go to work email a work version of your resume and a good time to call you to kean.smith at frogdesign.com </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/not-being-followed-on-twitter#post-1591 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:36:03 +0000 henrycooke 1591@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Me niether D: </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/500-error-on-action-logs/page/3#post-1590 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:22:55 +0000 cheezepieYFD 1590@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>@nathany - I don't know if you've made a change somewhere, but I thought I'd let you know I seem to be able to log in again! Thanks! </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/500-error-on-action-logs/page/3#post-1589 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:24:04 +0000 nathany 1589@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>@thunderkat - should be better now. i'm not sure what's causing the problem, but it's definitely something going on on my side that i need to work on. i'll update this thread once i figure it out. </p> <p>until then, please do let me know if it happens again. i'd hate being locked out of my data too. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/500-error-on-action-logs/page/3#post-1588 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:05:06 +0000 thunderkat 1588@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>@nathany - repeat offender. twitter username = jeremybeasley. </p> <p>do you know what message type i'm sending is causing it to break? i hate to keep nagging you with this (and i hate being locked out from my data). </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/value-changes-strange#post-1587 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:14:02 +0000 sunchess 1587@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Ok, will be waiting, thanks! </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/time-series-tweaks#post-1586 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:13:54 +0000 nathany 1586@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>still working on this bug that came about after the server switch. will have to hold off on changing times for now. i'll update this thread when i've fixed the bug:</p> <p><a href="http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/value-changes-strange" rel="nofollow">http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/value-changes-strange</a> </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/value-changes-strange#post-1585 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:11:22 +0000 nathany 1585@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>hey sunchess, still working on that bug with the server switch. i'm traveling right now, but it'll be the first thing i get to. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/value-changes-strange#post-1584 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:30:46 +0000 sunchess 1584@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Hi! When i try to change a value on action log page, for example «goodmorning» time, it changes strange. When i try to change 4:10 to 4:15, it becomes 6:35 for example. Any help? </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/not-being-followed-on-twitter#post-1583 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:08:33 +0000 starvucks 1583@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>...despite having added yfd more than an hour ago (user: starvucks)</p> <p>thank you </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/time-series-tweaks#post-1582 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:18:50 +0000 New High Score 1582@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>I feel like a nag posting a second complaint, but...</p> <p>So when I go back and change the time stamp on a particular action, the time changes itself automatically, probably to a different time zone.</p> <p>That's wierd, can I set my time zone to Singapore? </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/lost-5-days-of-data#post-1581 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:12:02 +0000 New High Score 1581@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>ditto, most of it seems like it's back. thanks, you rock! </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/lost-5-days-of-data#post-1580 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:11:55 +0000 jsherard 1580@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>looks like most of it's back. </p>