Creation Figures
Creation Figures
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 NEWBORN LURTZ GREEN MOON BOX LOTR LORD RINGS NEW!  US $18.99
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 Electronic Talking Darth Maul 12 inch figure. Autographed by Ray Park. US $49.99
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 NEW BEN 10 SPIDERMONKEY & ECHO ECHO US $18.75
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 MARVEL LEGENDS - BEAST - SERIES IV ACTION FIGURE US $19.99
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 Ben 10 Creation Chamber x2 Black & Blue w 4 Figures US $24.99
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 MARVEL LEGENDS Series 4 BEAST w/32 Page Comic X-MEN US $35.99
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 MCDONALD'S FLUSHED AWAY THE TOAD ACTION FIGURE TOY US $4.99
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 IRON MAN 2~WHIPLASH~12" FIGURE~HOTTOYS~MIB US $249.95
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 IRON MAN~TONY STARK~MECH TEST~12" FIGURE~HOTTOYS~MIB US $424.95
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 MCFARLANE’S MILITARY ARMY HELICOPTER CREW CHIEF SERIES 3 US $15.59
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 MCFARLANE’S MILITARY MARINE RADIOMAN SECOND TOUR OF DUTY US $14.99
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One day I was surfing the web in search of new useful, interesting or simply amusing websites. Among others I came across one resource. I will not give its URL in order not to be accused of hidden promotion or counter-advertising. I can only say that the majority of the website content consisted of the variety of statistics about everything on the Earth. Biggest animals, most successful movies, longest buildings, top search terms and so on, and so forth The presented information seemed to be rather structured. It was divided into special categories like Animal world, Human actions. IT facts etc. where every separate record was given in the form of so called TOP 10. But I got completely lost in the abundance of the information. The reason is simple. There was nothing to catch my eye. Words, words and nothing but the words got me depressed. And I left the site though the information given really was interesting to me.
Some time later I started to think about the role visualization plays in our perception of the website.
It is widely known that the majority of the information we receive comes to our mind through images. The speed of visual data perception and adoption is much higher than in the case of mere text. No matter how unique is the content, plain figures enumeration without appropriate image support usually causes irritation and desire to get rid of the annoying factor. At the same time even simple small chart or diagram can make U-turn in the situation. So how this fact can be used to make people come, stay and above all return to your website?
For instance let's take the websites of numerous banks, investment companies and financial corporations. In the conditions of the developing crisis they are obliged to fight for every existing or potential customer. So why not to represent so essential data of the infinite economic and financial indices, rates and values in the form of bar graph or histogram? They will display the entire picture to the clients as well as give the possibility to better data analysis.
The principal aim of the data visualization is to communicate information but in more effective, clear and obvious way than simple text does. Today we have plenty of tools visualize data on the website. The best way to input the given data to the website content in the attractive and eye-catching manner is to use flash components. Most of them don't need any installation, work with the majority of scripting languages, run on many browsers and support dynamic data update due to XML-format support. Variety of colors, chart types and interactivity make them great tool for creating completely tunable and scalable animated charts and graphs.
Today we could find plenty of flash chart and graph components for appropriate data visualization. We can name some of them.
In fact, the list is almost endless and for sure can be added with such tools as SWF/XML Charts, AmCharts, AnyCharts, Google Chart API, etc.
Besides interactive charts displaying statistics and exact figures the website can be enhanced by different graphs, flowcharts and org charts. There are separate tools to implement this option such as
Origramy Flash Graph Component or Gliffy.
The usage of just one of these tools are surely catches the visitor's attention and make them feel and understand what is hidden behind the figures and not to leave the site thereby.
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