Richard’s Corner

Graph It! Re-Branded, Employment Graphs Added

Posted on 30. Aug, 2009 by Richard.

On November 18, 2008, I released an application that allowed users to graph over 200 years of national debt data.

People seemed to like it, so a few months ago, I decided to start working on a second application for graphing unemployment data.  I finished it pretty quickly, and I was ready to release it, but then I had a thought.  Why not write a single application to graph both sets of data, and re-brand it as something more generic.  I decided to move forward with the idea, and “Graph It!” was born.

Feel free to try it out, and let me know what you think!
http://graphit.softworksdevelopment.com

I have some pretty ambitious ideas for improving Graph It!, including more data sets and additional reporting options, so please check back often.

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U.S. National Debt Graph

Posted on 18. Nov, 2008 by Richard.

Have you ever wanted to see a graphical representation of how screwed we are as a nation?  Well, I wrote an application that does just that.  With a few mouse clicks, you can see for yourself how we ended up more than $10 trillion dollars in debt.

http://dev.softworksdevelopment.com/nationaldebt/

I downloaded the data from Treasury Direct, and wrote the application using Adobe Flex 2, MySQL and AMFPHP.

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