Simon Willison’s Weblog

ClearMaps: A Mapping Framework for Data Visualization. An open source library for map visualisations using ActionScript, with an Adobe AIR based encoding tool for translating data from shapefiles in to vector data suitable for use with the library.

# 28th February 2010, 3:52 pm / flash, clearmaps, mapping, visualisations

An Easy Way to Make a Treemap. The second in Flowing Data’s handy series of R tutorials.

# 11th February 2010, 10:29 am / flowingdata, visualisations, treemap, r

They Write For You. I helped put together this visualisation of stories written by MPs for various newspapers at last Friday’s ’Hackers and Hacks" hack day.

# 2nd February 2010, 9:27 am / hackday, mps, politics, newspapers, visualisations, projects