Good data

We haven’t officially released (or, more importantly, documented) how to access data programatically from holmz — but, as you can see on our front page, we’re starting to drop massive hints on how to get data out of holmz and onto other places on the web.  We’re working on lots of different methods to do it, but the most stable way right now is to make use of our holmz.bluff.min.js Javascript library which allows you to query holmz and then visualize that data using Bluff.

If you’re interested, the library is pretty optimized.  It encapsulates everything you should need (jQuery, ExplorerCanvas, Bluff, and JS.Class) all in one JavaScript file and minimized.  One example of using it

Everything is encapsulated in the holmz.bluff.min.js file on line 1, and once the document as been loaded, we create a Bluff bar graph (line 4), and a holmz.hQuerier object (line 16).  We don’t have a method for API key distribution, so feel free to steal the one that is listed there.  Then, two queries later (line 17, and line 18), we get all the data as JSON, and populate it into a holmz.qResults object (line 19).  Data from holmz can come in all shapes and forms, so we “normalize” it to make sure that, at least, along the “year” axis, there is always data to be processed.  And then, sort, and pass to Bluff for display.

I know, I know - that was a whirlwind tour.  We’ll get some real docs up soon.  If you want to play with it, feel free to e-mail us.

Tags: bluff, data, holmz, publish, visualize, web

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