Metal: Development Notes: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:11, 28 September 2014

Random dev notes I want to remember...

W2UI has just about all the widgets and support we should need - AVOID JQUERY UI as that will get EXTREMELY MESSY to mix in!
Pull down javascript locally whenever possible - Make sure not to mix http and https or Firefox (etc?) will NOT load (so just pull locally!)
These visualizations are both beautiful and incredibly optimized; use with discretion FTW.
W2UI Toolbar uses font-awesome icons for now (will change according to author). Use icon: 'fa fa-#name#' according to this. List of icons

Details On Demand

The amazing D3 and CrossFilter javascript libraries are designed for dynamic analysis of "details on demand". You provide a decent-sized set of raw data (~5MB in the flights demo) and then the javascript tools let you manipulate it instantaneously to search for trends.

For Metal, our "details on demand" consist of the following per-day values:

value of metal in Mexico
value of metal in US
value of metal in transit

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 == Details On Demand ==
-The amazing D3 and CrossFilter javascript libraries are designed for dynamic analysis of "details on demand".  You provide a decent-sized set of raw data (~5MB in the flights demo) and then the javascript tools let you manipulate it instantaneously to search for trends.
+The amazing D3 and CrossFilter javascript libraries are designed for dynamic analysis of "details on demand".  You provide a decent-sized set of raw data ([http://square.github.io/crossfilter/flights-3m.json ~5MB] in the [http://square.github.io/crossfilter/ flights demo]) and then the javascript tools let you manipulate it instantaneously to search for trends.
 For Metal, our "details on demand" consist of the following per-day values: