Thursday, August 23, 2018

Collaboration scenario: sharing and cloning

Recently, charte.ca feature set got new additions: chart cloning and chart sharing. Cloning is getting an exact copy of a source chart. Sharing is allowing other users to edit your chart.

Consider an example: Bob is working on a chart and wants Alice to help him. Bob opens the chart in the editor, finds "Sharing" panel and clicks "Share with another user" button. He is presented with a popup that displays a URL of the invitation that Bob has to send Alice so she gets access to his chart. Bob presses "Confirm":


Now, "Sharing" panel displays the invitation in the list. If Bob changes his mind, he can cancel this invitation by clicking the "x" button on the right of the invitation:

Monday, May 7, 2018

Javascript ES6 only please

Starting from May 7, 2018, charte.ca charts are not displayed in browsers that do not support major ES6 features. In plain English: Internet Explorer users will not be able to see charts created by charte.ca, Edge users should be fine. Also, the editor now requires ES6 as well (which is not much of a change since the editor requires data uri support and IE and Edge are both lacking it).

Charts have just become 5-10% smaller in size.

Monday, January 29, 2018

charte.ca as an educational resource: motion charts visualizing World Bank data

High school students extract data from the World Bank dataset and create a motion chart that shows the relationship between life expectancy and expenditure on health in different countries. See discussion in Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List:

https://edulists.com.au/pipermail/yr11it/2017-August/003375.html

A set of instructions for Yr11 Information Technology students:

http://www.edulists.com.au/pipermail/yr11it/attachments/20170820/71ebeb96/VisualisingBigDatausingCharte-steps-0001.docx