Slopegraphs in Python – Failed States Index (Part 1)

The Fund For Peace (FFP) and Foreign Policy jointly released the 2012 version of the “failed states index” (FSI). From the FFP site, the FSI: …focuses on the indicators of risk and is based on thousands of articles and reports that are processed by our CAST Software from electronically available sources. I read it every… Continue reading

Just Like The Federation

[@hrbrmstr starts working in javascript again] The Internets: What do you think? @hrbrmstr: It’s vile. The Internets: I know. It’s so bubbly and cloying and happy. @hrbrmstr: Just like the Federation. The Internets: And you know what’s really frightening? If you develop with it enough, you begin to like it. @hrbrmstr: It’s insidious. The Internets:… Continue reading

Slopegraphs in Python – Formatting Tweaks

There were enough eye-catching glitches in the experimental javascript support and the ugly large-number display in the spam example post that I felt compelled to make a couple formatting tweaks in the code. I also didn’t have time to do “real” work on the codebase this weekend. So, along with spacing adjustments, there’s now an… Continue reading

Slopegraphs in Python – Experimental Raphaël Support

In preparation for the upcoming 1.0 release and with the hopes of laying a foundation for more interactive slopegraphs, I threw together some rudimentary output support over lunch today for Raphaël, which means that all you have to do is generate a new slopegraph with the “js” output type and include the salient portions of… Continue reading