ActionScript Graphing Cookbook

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ActionScript Graphing Cookbook

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 1. Getting Started with Graph Drawing

Introduction

Drawing in two dimensions

Building point charts

Creating a line graph based on a function

Adding labels and axes

Graphing a spreadsheet

Area charts

Multiple area charts

Styling a graph

Adding legends

Using Flex for charts

Chapter 2. Working with Data

Introduction

Preparing your data

Embedding CSV files

Loading a data file from the Internet

Loading a file from the local hard drive

Loading data with XML

Loading data from Excel files

Consuming the REST services

Exporting data as CSV to import in Excel

Exporting data to a PDF file

Chapter 3. Creating Bar Charts

Introduction

Drawing a bar chart with Flex

Building vertical bar charts

Creating comparison bar charts

Drawing histograms

Creating sparklines to enrich text content

Making 3D bar charts

Chapter 4. Drawing Different Types of Graphs

Introduction

Drawing a pie chart with Flex

Creating donut charts

Drawing meters and gauges

Making Venn diagrams

Building pyramid charts

Drawing bubble charts

Creating tag clouds

Creating a treemap

Chapter 5. Adding Interaction

Introduction

Zooming and panning around a graph

Sending data updates to the graph

Making the points interactive: Hovering

Selecting data points in the graph

A dynamic graph based on an editable table

Dragging data points to new values

Linking graphs

Chapter 6. Mapping Geographical and Spatial Data

Introduction

Showing a map using the openscales.org API

Adding points of interest to a map

Parsing data to use as region fill

Coloring a map

Adding multiple layers to a map

Overlaying a heat map

Chapter 7. Animating a Graph

Introduction

Animating between two data sets

Animating a meter

Automatic updates

Zooming in on a specific data set

Animating subway locations

Chapter 8. Creating a Relational Network

Introduction

Preparing the data

Creating the visual for a node

Arranging and linking the nodes

Navigating through the relational network

Animating the transitions

Adding sounds

Chapter 9. Creating Three-Dimensional Graphs

Introduction

Drawing in 3D: a 3D starter project

Creating a 3D column chart

Moving around the chart

Beyond the cube drawing different shapes

Graphing tabular data in 3D

Styling the graph with different materials

Graphing a function in three dimensions

Chapter 10. Working with Various 3D Graph Types

Introduction

Mapping keyboard usage in 3D part 1: The model

Mapping keyboard usage in 3D part 2: The data

3D world population chart part 1: The globe