Florida Crime Rates – An Information Visualization in Silverlight
I’ve always loved interactive information visualization, and have been particularly interested in building visualizations in Silverlight. (You can see a visualization I did for a ticket to the MIX 2009 Conference over here.) I’ve always thought that Silverlight, with its fantastic (and flexible) animation engine and the awesome data tools that .NET gives developers, is a perfect fit for info visualization projects.
Over the next week or so, I’m going to be putting up posts on how I created this interactive visualization of Florida crime rates. But for the time being, you can download the project files and check it out.
Note: As of September 1st, we’re having some weird issues with the initial loading and display. If you move the slider, everything will start working again… Will try to fix.
[silverlight: CountyTest/CountyTest.xap, 450, 466]
Interested in implementing visualizations for your projects? Feel free to contact me at Veracity Solutions via e-mail. My address is matthias – at – veracitysolutions – dot – com
Matt,
I am a high school Statistics teacher. I just showed this to my class and some of the kids thought it was really cool. Is there a way to use free software to make anything like this? What would you recommend having a student work with? I think some of them could self-teach some of these tools and find them very useful.
Thanks for any help.
C. Thompson