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phpguru.org offers a small and useful class to convert numbers to their textual equivalent. If you are building a accounting or invoicing application it may come in handy. The class can be downloaded form here. A sample code using the class is shown below.
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Charts are an indispensable part of any data visualization work. People can grok visual representation of data easily than a textual variety. Today there are a huge number of free chart libraries available to display visualizations on websites. Below is a small list of some of the libraries available for displaying charts using php.
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Most people are familiar with recommendation systems on websites, wherein after you select an item you are presented with a list of similar items other people purchased . Amazon being the popular one and also one of the first to use it. Below is shown a snapshot from Amazon. Collaborative filtering algorithms work by searching [...]
Using lines, points and other geometrical objects to visualize data has always fascinated me; specially time series. Time series charts let you visualize data points separated by time intervals. The following image shows an example of a time series data representing the salary of software engineers for a particular duration.
MIT’s Simile project has a new addition to their open source tools, ‘Seek‘. Seek adds a faceted browsing feature for Thunderbird, which lets you search through email or RSS feeds easily. A faceted classification scheme allows one to assign multiple classes to an object rather then a single predefined taxonomic class. Facets are more commonly [...]
Zend framework is gaining widespread use everyday. Each new version of the framework includes new component additions. The following shows a visual representation of the Zend framework for version 1.5. The following image was created using Microsoft Visio and then exported to PDF. I’ll be adding a linked map page soon. Click on the image [...]
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