ActionScript Graphing Cookbook

Table of Contents

• Preface

• 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
• 3D world population chart, part 2: Dressing up
• 3D world population chart, part 3: The data

• Index