The bubble graph works in Catalyst! It calls the scripts, finds the images and stylesheet, pulls the data, arranges it into javascript that is then interpreted by the page, and displays it nicely. I found a bug in my bubble graph code, which has now been fixed (so I am now on version 6 in my files). The only thing is that the page that displays the graph has the date and time ranges more or less hard coded at present. I need to set it up to let the user choose that range. Also, it's extremely slow, which I attribute to the fact that I run a new query for every bubble (i.e., every hour of every day in the range). I will need to rewrite the query so that we can get several bubbles with one query. That will be a bit of a project.

Today I demo'd my bar graph page at the weekly meeting. People seemed to really like it, and I got some good feedback on how it can be improved. Dr. Skubic had some ideas for how we can display more measurements on the graph. I'm going to make the bars horizontal so that long ranges of data can be displayed more easily - the user can just scroll, so we don't have to squish all the data to an unreadable scale. Come to think of it, why not just keep it as is and let them scroll horizontally? I should ask about that. One possible reason might be that horizontal scrolling is less common, and you might not be able to just whirl your scroll wheel to view it.

Dr. Skubic also asked me to show them the bubble graph mockup that I had. I had hoped to have the bubble graph fully operational by the meeting, but I couldn't get it done in time. There was some good discussion about the bubble graph as well.

My project for tomorrow will be to make all those changes to the bar graph. I'll table the bubble graph for a while.