First successful upload of Survival1812 to an online presentation service in which it runs successfully!
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As of the 23rd May 2022 this website is archived and will receive no further updates.
understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
A selection of our social bookmarks sorted by category which we believe to be of general interest. {Originally stored on https://del.icio.us/undunc}
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Ahead.com Survival1812
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Best Practices - robotlegs-framework - GitHub
A lightweight dependency Injection framework that includes event mapping (notification) and MVC implementation. So it can be used to replace or augment PureMVC.
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birdeye - Project Hosting on Google Code
A wide ranging AS3 visualization library attempting to integrate other open source libraries. UN sponsored, but currently being reworked to use Flash Builder 4.
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Build a Fluid Website Layout - Flashtuts+
Some simple Flash classes for fluid whole page layout. (i.e. like Flex width="100%" height="100%")
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Colorbrewer: Color Advice for Maps
Helps pick a colour set for a graphic or visualisation.
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coordy - Project Hosting on Google Code
An AS3 layout library
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ECB: SDMX-ML and SDMX-EDI (GESMES/TS)
SDMX-ML is the XML syntax used by the European Central Bank and the national central banks in the web dissemination of statistics. The following sections in the ECB web site support downloading of data in SDMX-ML format:
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Flare | Data Visualization for the Web
An AS3 data visualization library
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Git Book - Reviewing History - Git Log
Most readable git guide I've found. Complete with good video work throughs.
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High quality, high performance thumbnails in Flash - Jacob Wright – Flex, AIR, PHP, etc.
This is a useful way of preserving quality when creating the small images needed for zoomed out views in openzoom.
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JuiceKit for Visual Analytics - JuiceKit™ SDK
A new Flex visualisation library that appears to incorporate Flare. JuiceKit™ is a Software Development Kit (SDK) for building Information Experience™ applications. JuiceKit integrates with Adobe Flex to create components that are easy to implement and aesthetically pleasing. JuiceKit components include controls, visualizations, and utility classes.
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LateX Equation Editor v2.5 Installation
PHP LaTeX maths rendering as a web service.
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Mondrian - Interactive Statistical Data Visualization in JAVA
A java visualisation library
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pixelbreaker : SWFObject add-on: MouseWheel on Mac OS
A tool which extends SWFObject to support the Mac mousewheel on OSX. Macs have been missing mousewheel support for flash animations.
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plainview : software : the barbarian group
A Mac presentation tool in the form of a full screen web browser that has
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Processing, JSON & The New York Times | blprnt.blg
Sample code from #blprnt
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Projection Point - Risk Intelligence Testing
Web survey of risk intelligence Quotient
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Protovis
A javascript visualization library under development in Stanford. Now looking very good!
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SIMILE Project
Hosts a number of innovative javascript widgets which access a semantically linked web database stored in JSON format. MIT
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Swiz Framework : Examples
Looks like a really simple Swing-like alternative framework to PureMVC.
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Welcome to Adjuvant! Online
Decision making tool for healthcare
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WPtouch: Mobile Plugin + Theme for WordPress ↔ BraveNewCode Inc.
WordPress blog to iPhone/Android
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Zoomorama - The high definition zooming solution
A deep zoom web service for photographs. Creates embeddable deep zoom animations in Flash.