http://forums.flowingdata.com/ Strength in Numbers en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:00:26 +0000 http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/user-interface-to-help-with-google-charts-api#post-610 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:17:43 +0000 flexnj 610@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>For people looking for a free ajax chart api, I recently ran into another offering at <a href="http://chart.inetsoft.com" rel="nofollow">http://chart.inetsoft.com</a>. It looks quite interesting and seems to support more types of charts with a large ajax api. Worth a look. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/user-interface-to-help-with-google-charts-api#post-609 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:47:55 +0000 nathany 609@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>I'm not a fan, but in you're interested, here's a UI to help you figure out what you want out of the Google Charts API:</p> <p><a href="http://www.clabberhead.com/googlechartgenerator.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.clabberhead.com/googlechartgenerator.html</a> </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/new-york-times-announce-real-estate-api#post-608 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:05:18 +0000 nathany 608@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p><a href="http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/announcing-the-real-estate-api/" rel="nofollow">http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/announcing-the-real-estate-api/</a></p> <p>I love how the New York Times continues to release new APIs. I should really get around to playing around with them. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/the-spore-api#post-587 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:26:55 +0000 miketwardos 587@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Oops, I meant:<br /> <a href="http://www.thevioletpiece.com/spore/processing/contentcount/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thevioletpiece.com/spore/processing/contentcount/index.html</a><br /> Here's a screen shot:</p> <p> [attachment=587,94] </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/the-spore-api#post-585 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:52:24 +0000 miketwardos 585@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>I made two apps in Processing using the Spore API: </p> <p>The first one looks at asset uploads in the last minute: </p> <p><a href="http://www.thevioletpiece.com/spore/processing/pollinator/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thevioletpiece.com/spore/processing/pollinator/index.html</a> </p> <p>using the API method: </p> <p><a href="http://www.spore.com/rest/assets/search/NEWEST/0/50" rel="nofollow">http://www.spore.com/rest/assets/search/NEWEST/0/50</a> </p> <p>The second one is a clock / asset counter: </p> <p><a href="http://www.thevioletpiece.com/spore/processing/pollinator/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thevioletpiece.com/spore/processing/pollinator/index.html</a> </p> <p>using the API method: </p> <p><a href="http://www.spore.com/rest/stats" rel="nofollow">http://www.spore.com/rest/stats</a></p> <p>Enjoy! </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/the-spore-api#post-528 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:50:31 +0000 miketwardos 528@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>The PC video game Spore has a huge database of player created content and social activity publicly available via a web API.<br /> Check it out:<br /> <a href="http://www.sporeapi.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.sporeapi.com</a></p> <p>They have libraries available in many languages:<br /> <a href="http://www.spore.com/comm/developer/processing" rel="nofollow">http://www.spore.com/comm/developer/processing</a><br /> <a href="http://www.spore.com/comm/developer/mathematica" rel="nofollow">http://www.spore.com/comm/developer/mathematica</a><br /> <a href="http://www.spore.com/comm/developer/flash" rel="nofollow">http://www.spore.com/comm/developer/flash</a><br /> among others! Looking forward to what new ways the visualization community has for looking at all of this data! </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/new-york-times-best-sellers-api#post-319 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:27:13 +0000 nathany 319@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Soak it up:</p> <p><a href="http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/announcing-the-best-sellers-api/" rel="nofollow">http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/announcing-the-best-sellers-api/</a> </p>