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yihui 2022-12-16 16:02:36

Brownian Motion Using Google Visualization API and R

https://yihui.org/en/2008/11/brownian-motion-using-google-visualization-api-and-r/

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yihui 2022-12-16 16:02:37

I have included a demo function g.brownian.motion() in the R package ``animation'':

if(!require("animation")) install.packages("animation")
library(animation)
g.brownian.motion(15, digits = 2, width = 600, height = 500)

Originally posted on 2009-03-31 10:33:58

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 16:02:38

Guest *Eduardo* @ 2009-06-11 00:39:25 originally posted:

What is a good api for visualization?

yihui 2022-12-16 16:02:40

What I meant by saying "poor" for GoogleVis API was: it has very limited capability of drawing genuine statistical graphics, e.g. histogram/density curve, boxplot, scatter plot with regression line or LOWESS curve, not to mention sunflower scatter plot, conditional density plot, contour plot/lines, mosaic plot, ...

To the general audience, the bar/line/pie chart are much more common and easy to understand, but what they reveal is just the original data (or numbers) -- little summary, no statistical inference and hence limited information.

For your question, I haven't found a good API for (general) data visualization yet. There might be good ones for specific tasks, I think.

Originally posted on 2009-06-11 16:07:04

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 16:02:41

Guest *Alex* @ 2011-11-15 23:24:31 originally posted:

Actually scatter plots with regression curves are possible with ComboCharts now - just set one series to have a positive pointSize, and a 0 lineWidth, and vice-versa

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 16:02:39

Guest *Jens* @ 2009-09-19 12:59:02 originally posted:

I know I am a bit late with the comment, but what do you think about Dojo?
Aren´t there any possibilities for data visualisation as well and beyond Google API?

yihui 2022-12-16 16:02:40

I've never tried Dojo; thanks for pointing it out. Just now I looked at some demos and it seems to be useful. And sorry, I don't know much about web applications for data visualization.

Originally posted on 2009-09-20 23:38:03