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Tag Archives: charts

How to make a Flash Line Chart in Rails using Ziya

Ziya is pretty cool, and the documentation is slowly starting to surface. I was annoyed that I couldn’t find a good example paste of how to make a line chart. Then I watched the screencast. It’s the first example he does, so I’m posting it here so those who can’t watch it can actually find out how to do it. I’m going to operate on the precondition that you’ve installed Ziya and included it in your controller properly. Do the [...]

Meetup group size for popular candidates

I saw a post on Digg that caught my eye, and thought that this might be another way to gauge the amount of hardcore supporters each popular candidate has. I picked the following: Ron Paul Dennis Kucinich Barack Obama Hillary Clinton Rudy Giuliani Mitt Romney Mike Huckabee Fred Thompson John Edwards Mike Gravel John McCain Now, you would think that the number of hardcore supporters should correlate nicely with the number of voters turning out in the primaries since one [...]

Tracking my workouts on cool charts

I decided today that I wanted to track my calories burned per day on a nice line graph. I did it, and I think I will continue. The total is automatically calculated by the PHP data source. This was made using my Mephisto Plugin for Open Flash Charts.