Flex Heat Map
Posted by Rusty Weneck in Uncategorized, tags: Computer Science, Flex, Google, HeatMap**UPDATE**
So I realized I overlooked a few datails on the heat map. First, I hardcoded into the component the starting location and zoom of the map. Second, I did not expose any of the awesome geo-locating code that allowed adding markers to the map from a standard U.S. Address (or most others for that matter). So I added those features, as well as clearing up the add points by click button by changing it to a checkbox. Below is a picture of the newer version with Cincinnati’s City Hall marked on the map and some example data, pretend its sales in the Cincinnati area or something.
So one of my interest is data visualization. Good thing I happen to be proficient in one of the best technologies for displaying data sets in new an interesting way. I first ran across a heat map in the package I use to track statistics on this very site. http://www.phpmyvisites.us/ What they did is take a picture of your page and track user clicks, which can be infinitely useful for someone who is trying to optimize how users navigate their site. (not that I do too much of that here.) Essentially it shows you where many clicks amass, causing certain areas of the site to “heat up”.
I used Google maps, both because this could be used for just a map api wrapper, and because I’m a bit of a cheerleader for Google. Let me know what you think, It’s not the prettiest, but its been a fun little project. Binarys to come…
Source here.
Example here.
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