Blake

Recently at work we had the need / want to look at some data in a visual way. We had all the raw stuff in a MySQL database, and I had built an intranet website to filter and export the raw data into Excel. Yeah, I’m sure that Excel could do it, but who wants to go through the hassle of building charts, when I could just build a page to do it for you?

So I started researching some options, and at first, I was interested in the SIMILE Project. I’m not sure how well I could get the data to integrate with the Timeline project. I didn’t want to have to convert stuff from the database into a text file that somehow gets transferred to the client (sounds lazy , I know). After some more searching, Google has just come out with a solution this year!

I’ve been working on a really cool project at work. So I wanted to make a solution that would apply the things that I’ve learned in school. I’m developing an internal website that runs JSPs, and stores and pulls data from a mySQL server. I’ve tried to normalize the database as much as possible to [...]