Hello again!
Today I’m posting an AS3 experiment I made when I was playing around with parsing data, and making info-graphics.

I was inspired to try some data visualisation and info-graphics when I started reading the brilliant blog – Flowing Data.

FlowingData explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better – mainly through data visualization. Money spent, reps at the gym, time you waste, and personal information you enter online are all forms of data. How can we understand these data flows? Data visualization lets non-experts make sense of it all.

It’s a really interesting blog, you should check it out.

So, I went out to find some data to play around with. Eventually, I found this data set, the CIA World Factbook. It’s a really interesting source of national statistics, on all sorts of things.

In this flash file, I parse out the data from the CIA Fact Book, and split it into countries, category of measurement and the data for each category for each country. These measurements are then displayed using a basic bar-chart.

Take a look here and let me know what you think.
Cheers.
Lawrie.