It has been a little over a week since we got back from San Francisco and the MAX conference. It has taken me this long to surface for air after getting caught up from being away. Adobe announced a dizzying amount of updates and initiatives. Serge Jespers has a list of most of them here: http://www.webkitchen.be/2008/11/22/weekly-blend-the-max-edition/. Let’s just say that it will be a while before I can digest all of this.
The picture above (taken by Charles Freedman) shows the massive display that was set up for the keynotes. I have never seen anything like it before. When I walked into the hall, Icky Thump by White Stripes was playing through the incredible sound system and I could feel the thumps on my chest. I had goosebumps.
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Mark Logic tells me that anyone who cares about free text analytics will be very interested in this visualization, because it previously was not available in any product. The keyword here being Real-Time. A geospatial analysis of documents returned from a free text search, plotted in arbitrary geographic bounding boxes, calculated in real-time. No other product can do this is real-time. Try out the demo..
When the initial heatmap is displayed you can hold the ctrl/cmd button down and either click on a "bucket" or click-drag to zoom in on an area and have new buckets calculated.
This widget was part of the recent MarkLogic Server 4.0 release.
My role was that of Flex developer of the map visualization. Craig Schlegelmilch directed the project and wrote the middleware integration using Xquery. Owen Brierley wrote the javascript (html controls are continually updated with search results). Tanya Camp provided graphic design consultation. Craig and Tanya form the dynamic company Bucketduck Inc. and the overall project is a production of GystWorks.
