OK sports are great for the fact that they are a statisticians dream, so many numbers, so many angles, who could blame them. I just came across this impressive set of graphs in the Washington Post that depict the NBA finals this year, where the Miami Heat are struggling against the Mavericks despite the fact that they seem to have a dream roster. The large graphs depict the flow of the game through the 4 quarters showing the total points per team, time that the teams led during the game, and final score. Directly under each of the graphs you see 4 bar charts that represent each quarter and display the minutes that each team led, and finally under the bar charts is a pie chart that shows the total minutes that each team led during the game. This is an excellent example of an executive dashboard, and turning mundane statistics into information.
A good example of an executive overview
Very few applications allow us to use most of the elements that beginning JavaScript students would want/should to learn as most of the examples using JS are more complex due to the influx of Ajax and JavaScript’s growing importance in web design so I thought I would throw together a little application that would use or explain most of the fundamentals.