I just discovered VisAD and am very impressed by its capabilities,
particularly in the Visualization Spreadsheet.
I need to develop an application which is not like any of the VisAD
examples, so I am unsure if VisAD is a viable or sensible choice to code
with.
I'm thinking about a spreadsheet where mostly the entries are simple
numbers, but some entries may be (static) images, or possibly small (and
few variable) data sets. For the simple number cells I need to do
standard formula-based calculations. So it's a sort of 'multimedia
spreadsheet' to be used for recording different kinds of data, and to be
able to organise and 'play around' with the data. This is to support a
learning application for decision-making with quantified (statistical)
and unquantified data.
The other specific thing I need is to be able to construct 2D charts
from numerical entries in the spreadsheet, and to have direct
manipulation of the values in the individual data cells by dragging the
data point displayed in the chart [Excel had this as a built-in function
prior to version Excel2007]. That's the basic, if there were neat ways
to do more complex direct manipulation that would be a bonus.
Thanks for any suggestions!
- Phillip
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Dr Phillip Kent
London Knowledge Lab - Institute of Education
23 - 29 Emerald St
London WC1N 3QS
p.kent@xxxxxxxxx
tel 020 7763 2156 mobile 07950 952034
www.RISKatIOE.org , www.phillipkent.net
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