Samples Blast: part 2, Interactive Bubble

June 29th, 2006

Interested in building customized, interactive charts? A while back I spent a few hours trying to mimic the excellent Sector Graphic chart from the New York Times Online. See the demo and browse the source here.

Posted by Ely Greenfield Filed in Charts, Flex

17 Responses to “Samples Blast: part 2, Interactive Bubble”

  1. David Says:
    June 29th, 2006 at 4:10 pm

    Not working 4 me.. I have flash 9,0,16,0

    ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property hasDefinition not found on flash.system.ApplicationDomain and there is no default value.
    at mx.managers::SystemManager/getDefinitionByName()
    at mx.managers::SystemManager/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::addingChild()
    at mx.managers::SystemManager/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::rawChildren_addChildAt()
    at mx.managers::SystemChildrenList/addChild()
    at mx.managers::SystemManager/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::initialize()
    at mx.managers::SystemManager/::initHandler()

  2. deng Says:
    June 30th, 2006 at 1:33 am

    it take 100%CPU time when i was doing draging

  3. Ola Says:
    June 30th, 2006 at 3:48 am

    Check out our Interactive Bubble chart with a time dimension:
    http://tools.google.com/gapminder/

  4. Erki Esken Says:
    June 30th, 2006 at 7:04 am

    Yes, ustom axis renderers! Now I can finish my custom charts just like the designer wanted it :-)

  5. Erki Esken Says:
    June 30th, 2006 at 7:05 am

    “custom axis renderers” that is. Ely, maybe you can add a Preview feature to comments?

  6. Mattias Says:
    July 2nd, 2006 at 10:35 am

    Hey,

    We have just started a flexforum at http://www.flexforum.org. We will do the best to answer all questions. Please join!

    All the best
    Mattias

  7. jeremiah johnson Says:
    July 5th, 2006 at 1:24 pm

    awesome. love it.

  8. Mark Says:
    December 6th, 2006 at 10:26 am

    Great example.

    Does anybody have an example of panning but using a DateTimeAxis? I have been trying to convert this example but I’m not having much luck.

    Thanks

  9. Phanikanth Says:
    February 16th, 2007 at 5:30 am

    Hi,

    Please send me the mxml code for interactive bubble chart if your developed anything more than it is posted in the site.
    Because we are looking for exactly the same senario of NY times sector.

    Soliciting your favourable reply.

    Thanks in advance.

    Regards,
    Phanikanth

  10. Jason Says:
    February 20th, 2007 at 9:02 am

    Hi I am a littel confused abut the updateDisplayList method in the RollOverRenderer class of the interactive bubble example - would it be possible for you to give a little more detail about what is happening in this method?

    Cheers

  11. Bijit Says:
    February 26th, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Hi, the example doesnt compile for me and throws an error as follows:
    Could not resolve to a component implementation.

    Can you please help?
    I am using Flex builder 2.0.1

  12. DaniTinez Says:
    March 2nd, 2007 at 7:01 am

    I need that the graph does not add lines when I make zoom, just like the nytime chart. i mean, i have to use a fixed separation on the horizontal axis. how can i do that?

    sorry by my english, its all that google can do for me.

    pregunta: alguien habla castellano??? my english suckkkss

  13. Liby Says:
    June 1st, 2007 at 11:22 pm

    Hi,

    I have a question. Two if possible. I wanted to add a dynamic colorful bubble chart (with word count) made by users, to participate in my website. I wonder whether this is possible to create and embed in my website (and I will include this reference of course) . At this point I don’t mind paying as I understand technology, I consume it but not much into coding.
    The bubble charts I had in mind look similar to the ones Many Eyes (IBM labs) display.

    I teach sign language for babies and I wanted to implement in my website an option for partents to vote which word was used by their babies/toddlers most, and basically what were the initial words these littlle one used.

    Pleaseany help will be much appreciated.
    Best regards,
    Liby

  14. Denis Says:
    July 2nd, 2007 at 8:22 am

    Ely,

    When I add the Simple Axis Renderer from this project to linear axis of a column chart (Y axis), Flex comes back with runtime error: failed to convert SimpleAxisRenderer to AxisRenderer. Do you know what might be a problem. It always happens when a category axis is present.

    Thanks!

  15. Tom Lee Says:
    September 25th, 2007 at 1:11 pm

    I’m having the same trouble as Mark. I have a horizontal DateTimeAxis and am having difficulty modifying the example to work with it. Any pointers?

  16. John Says:
    September 26th, 2007 at 6:06 pm

    Hi All,
    I have a data source that populate both bubble chart and a datagrid. I was able to mouse over the bubble on the chart to show the datatip and at the same time highlight the corresponding datagrid item. My question is how do I do it other way around, that is select the datagrid item and show the datatip on the bubble chart?

    Any thoughts will greatly appreciated.

    John

  17. David Hamm Says:
    June 4th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/displayShelf/download/index.html - display shelf
    http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/InteractiveBubble/srcview/index.html - bubble chart

    I notice that you have copyright / license preamble for display shelf but not for bubble chart. What is the bubble chart license?

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