Someone over at Juice Analytics published a nifty little chart that uses Python and NodeBox. Each item in the chart is a bubble with a number. The idea is that the larger numbers have larger bubbles and are easier to see. Edward Tufte may have a thing or to say about this and would probably call it "chart junk", but let's assume it isn't.
While the visuals look cool, NodeBox only runs on Mac OS X at the moment. That just won't do! I'm running on GNU/Linux and I want some graphical goodness. I decided to convert it from the Python/NodeBox code to Processing. Processing is a visualization tool that is built on Java and runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux.
The code isn't perfect and there is a lot of ugliness in terms of processing the data, but I'll be damned if this doesn't run on 3 platforms. Okay, okay, it looks a little off-center. It's close enough and it shows that Processing can handle all sorts of visuals. Since this is Processing, you can just click here to view the whole thing instead of a static image :)
