data visualization and codea

Questions
1

Hi,

We are a small group developing a real-time event based system in Lua: www.kronometrix.com - We recently found Codea and it looks cool. We are planning to have a small app for iOS, which will connect to our analytic appliance and we were thinking if Codea will be useful for us, regarding:

  • minimal support for charts, time series charts ?

  • more advanced things like: heatmaps, treemaps etc ?

  • http support (I see there is some minimal API for it)

I understood Codea fits better as a gaming alternative for iOS, but wonder if we could try it for data visualization ?

Thank you,
Stefan

2

I’ve developed whole sets of graphs and charts using Codea — line graphs, scatter plots, guages, etc.

Works very well for live dashboards.

3

There should be no problem doing constant http requests and graphing or displaying the information being returned. It would be just like playing a game. You could have different buttons that can be pressed to request/display information in any format you want.

4

@parvu - Codea can draw anything you want, the catch being that you have to program each type of chart from scratch, because nothing is built in.