informatics

Are there existing frameworks for data-based manipulation of information presentation?

My wife is about to embark on a mind-bogglingly long project. One of the things she'll need to do is present numbers to potential investors - income, spending, impact of spending, increase in profits, etc. The first thing that occurred to me was to use some rudimentary SVG, to build scalable models of stuff (fruits, buildings, etc.) tha...

Study Informatics because I like programming?

Maybe this question is not really programming related, but since I believe that a good number of SOlers had to ask themselves the same question once SO seems to be the right place to ask. Next year I want to study here in Germany. Since I have many interests there are many possible branches of study. One of my favorites is Informatics, ...

Looking for a college project

Hello I'm looking for a project for my 4th year at the Informatics Faculty in Damascus University. In my college we have to make a project on each year in the last three years (we study informatics for 5 years in college). My project on the last year was: XMPP Java Implementation. In this year we need to make a more complicated proje...

Resources for how to design graph/charts well

One of my projects needs to show users where they rank in certain calculations. I inherited the graph structure from the previous programmer and had to leave it alone while I worked on other parts of the site. It's time to make the graphs more meaningful, so I'm looking for books/websites/etc about graphs. (Not graph theory!) Charts th...