Comments on: A Look at FINVIZ.com (Financial Visualizations) http://abeautifulwww.com/2008/05/12/a-look-at-finvizcom-financial-visualizations/ Information Visualization. Search. Data Mining. Machine Learning. AI. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:41:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: admin http://abeautifulwww.com/2008/05/12/a-look-at-finvizcom-financial-visualizations/comment-page-1/#comment-4119 admin Mon, 12 May 2008 21:30:55 +0000 http://abeautifulwww.com/2008/05/12/a-look-at-finvizcom-financial-visualizations/#comment-4119 Any set of images may be loaded into the google maps api which handles loading and zoom. I don't know for certain how they implemented this map...I could be entirely wrong about the google maps usage, and it could have been done entirely in flash, for example. But we did something similar with our Wikipedia map using Google Maps API by generating the images at multiple levels of zoom then loading them into the api. See http://scimaps.org/maps/wikipedia/20080103/ Todd Any set of images may be loaded into the google maps api which handles loading and zoom.

I don’t know for certain how they implemented this map…I could be entirely wrong about the google maps usage, and it could have been done entirely in flash, for example.

But we did something similar with our Wikipedia map using Google Maps API by generating the images at multiple levels of zoom then loading them into the api. See http://scimaps.org/maps/wikipedia/20080103/

Todd

]]> By: Jeanne http://abeautifulwww.com/2008/05/12/a-look-at-finvizcom-financial-visualizations/comment-page-1/#comment-4117 Jeanne Mon, 12 May 2008 14:46:05 +0000 http://abeautifulwww.com/2008/05/12/a-look-at-finvizcom-financial-visualizations/#comment-4117 Do you have any more details about how the Treemap component was created using the Google Maps API? I looked through the API documentation but I didn't see anything about treemaps...Thanks! Do you have any more details about how the Treemap component was created using the Google Maps API? I looked through the API documentation but I didn’t see anything about treemaps…Thanks!

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