As the observant amongst you may have noticed from the last post, we have a new graphing tool on Timetric.
When we launched our private beta, we needed a graphing package quick-smart, so we bought-in a third-party solution to tide us over until we could find time to build our own.
Over the last month or so, we’ve been building a replacement from scratch, the results of which look a little something like:
Average surface temperature anomaly: Global (before smoothing)
For this initial release, the big changes are under the hood. We can now handle significantly larger data sets, up more than 20-fold from around 5000 points to over 100,000! (For the more technically-minded, this is largely due to the switch from interpreted Actionscript 2, to bytecode-compiled Actionscript 3.) We were also able to add a fun new feature: full-screen mode. While sounding rather frivolous, it’s actually surprising useful, especially when there are a lot of data points. To find it, right/ctrl-click on the graph.
Our overlay plots have also seen some attention. The biggest complaint we had for our old version was that when you overlaid series which varied on very different scales, you couldn’t really make anything out. Our new version supports multiple y-axes to make things better. Try click the check-box below!
ECB exchange rates: Euro vs. GBP and ECB exchange rates: Euro vs. USD and ECB exchange rates: Euro vs. JPY
As always, if you have any comments or suggestions, please get in touch!