UNdata – visualizing public data

Finally! This is what I was waiting for so long, a data visualization course with Shawn Allen from Stamen. They are one of the most known design agencies specializing in data visualization in the world and I really love their works.

The course started with quick introduction to ActionScript. I already knew it so I jumped right into coding. To get a lot of interesting data we were using UNdata website. To simplify process of loading xml data files into flash Shawn had written a small library and shared it with us. After a while I realized that it was a little bit limited for stuff I wanted to do so I wrote my own classes for parsing UNdata xml.

Here you can see results of my work. You can click on this image to open interactive visualization and play with it.

If you are interested in source code for this visualization along with my classes for UNdata you can download it here : BirthRate.zip