[Closed] Web Templates for displaying data

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novel approaches to displaying data

Is there a budget? Spotfire?

I think the question is more about reading data from a table or database and showing it in a graph, and being able to choose what information you want to show: [url= http://okavangodata.ub.bw/ori/monitoring/water/# ]like this[/url].

I've also been [url= https://www.google.co.bw/search?q=creating+graphs+from+tab+delimited+data+php ]looking into this[/url] and most solutions seem to involve Java things, I haven't had time to delve further though, so watching this thread with interest.

Some possible leads [url= http://php.resourceindex.com/programs_and_scripts/images_graphs/graphs_and_charts/ ]here[/url] and [url= http://www.hotscripts.com/category/scripts/php/scripts-programs/graphs-charts/ ]here[/url].

What I'm interested in is turning a [url= http://mikeknott.brinkster.net/WeatherLink/Reports/NOAAMO.txt ]tab delimited text file[/url] into graphs.

as above, I have been looking into this and if you don't want to buy some 'Business Intelligence' software then it seems you need to be pretty handy with java (which I am not).

I'd love to be able to do some of the stuff [url= http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ ]here[/url] but other stuff seems to get in the way, like work...or singletrackworld

Have you looked at some of the javascript charting libraries?

http://d3js.org/
http://g.raphaeljs.com/
http://www.chartjs.org/

What kind of data, as in what source does it have?

For ideas, a lot of environmental data is presented like this, from real time monitoring sites.

[url= http://www.ceh.ac.uk/data/nrfa/data/search.html ]UK river flow data[/url] (zoom in, click on a site name and the Daily flow data tab presents different data)

[url= http://www.londonair.org.uk/london/asp/datadownload.asp ]Real time nowcast air quality data[/url], with various 'tools' for statistics, plotting and download.

I understand that if you have the database and tools (software) that can determine the statistics and output the graphs you want, a very simple PHP link will send the user selection to the software, run the tool and return the graphs.

EDIT: not necessarily what the OP was asking for, but R software has some really nice libraries for data visualisation.

Not got round to using it, [url= http://sysbio.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/Rwui/ ]Rwui[/url] looks like an easy way to build a web interface for running [url= http://cran.r-project.org/ ]R[/url] scripts.

scottyjohn - Member

This will effectively be a UI for someone using this data, and taking action based on it

Ask that someone then. They'll want the simplest thing that enables them to make the right decision for the action.

Once you've asked, them and a few other who do the same job, merge all the responses together and shortlist three different presentation mechanisms. Ask that group of users to choose one of the three.

Then pick the right technology in which to implement it.

Invoice is in the post.

Lol Bensales,
Thanks guys, lots of good inspiration there. My primary design goal is to make the Ux as relevant and straight forward as possible, but if that can be done with a cool looking UI then all the better. Your right, the user groups will ultimately decide, but Id rather narrow their options to something that better fits the company direction in terms of user desktop look and feel. Have a meeting with one of the UI designers next week, and these will help me show / explain what Im thinking of.

Thanks again 🙂