Simon Willison’s Weblog

An Easy Way to Make a Treemap. The second in Flowing Data’s handy series of R tutorials.

# 11th February 2010, 10:29 am / flowingdata, r, treemap, visualisations

Automating PowerPoint with Python. Useful tutorial on using ActivePython’s win32com module to automate PowerPoint. The example code pulls in the top 50 banks by assets from the Guardian Data Store and generates a treemap using PowerPoint’s shape drawing primitives.

# 3rd April 2009, 3:13 pm / activepython, datastore, guardian, powerpoint, python, treemap, visualisation