Processing & Javascript

I wanted to create a BabyName Voyager-type functionality, where changes to the view in the visualisation would change the URL and vice versa.

There are definitely improvements to be made, but this is the first pass at Processing & Javascript.

Eg: you can load the applet with 100 circles and a white background instead by adding the attribute to the hash.

We’ve been working on a datavis project lately, and needed this code for it — so watch this space: I’ll be blogging about The Data Visualisation Process very soon.

The data isn’t quite complete (there are about 300 missing suburbs that didn’t have matching postcodes in the data file I got from thsutton@geonames…like, postcode 3000 is missing!), but otherwise, it’s interesting!

Unlike Fry’s version, I’ve almost implemented search by suburb name, so you can search by postcode or name. Dur.

It’s buggy, I haven’t ‘designed’ anything, still have to fix a lot of stuff up, and it’s all nergh, but here it is anyway:

the Australian Postdecode.

At least I promise to keep track of the progress and process with this!

Some insights:

• The most popular starting-character is ‘B’ (1665 suburbs)
• There is a suburb starting with ‘X’ (Xantippe, 6609)