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Hi Traci,
Thanks for the post as I’m sure others have wondered about this. And it is easy.
- Add a Boundary attribute to the dataset.
- Edit the formula of your new attribute as shown in the screen capture.
Here it is for copy/paste:
lookupBoundary(country_boundaries,Country) - When you Apply the formula you will see miniature maps appear as values for the attribute for most of the countries.
- Make a map! The countries should appear. Drag an attribute into the middle of the map to color the countries by the values of that attribute.
Caveats:
- Make the map after you add the Boundary attribute. An existing CODAP map might not pick up the change.
- The name of the attribute can be one of ‘boundary’, ‘boundaries’, ‘polygon’, ‘polygons’, ‘grenze’, ‘境界’
- If you want to name it something else, then you must set the attribute type to ‘boundary’ using the Edit Attribute Properties dialog box.
- Some countries may not appear on the map. This is because the name in your dataset doesn’t correspond exactly to the name in CODAP’s database. But you can fix that by looking up CODAP’s name in this document. (It helps to make a map so it’s easy to find the country you want.)
News flash! We have found a recent change in Google Drive is responsible for these problems. We have a fix that we’re testing at this moment. I recommend that you not open from Google Drive until we release the fix. Instead, download from Google Drive and drag into CODAP as a workaround.
We expect to do the release very soon. (In fact, I’m testing it now.) Look for 0559 as the build number in the upper right of the document.
Apologies for problems this has caused you all!
Bill
Yeah, we don’t think it has anything to do with the document itself, but rather, something about CODAP getting along well with Google Drive.
We think something has changed with Google Drive but we’re not yet clear what that might be.
Another possible workaround is to find the document in the Google Drive interface and open from there; for example by double-clicking.
If you haven’t done this before it may require you to give CODAP some permissions before being allowed to open in this manner.
Please let us know if this works for you.
Bill
Hi again,
Can you provide a link that opens Shuffleboard V1.1? I failed to find one 😬 and I want to remember exactly how Set Strategy works!
Thanks, Bill
Hello Steen,
Here is a link to Version 2.0 of the game, the one that doesn’t allow you to set a strategy (in case you lose the one you have saved on Google Drive).
Your note about magic moments is highly motivating. I wish I could promise that I will be able to free up some resources to give you back what you desire. At least you have motivated me to put it high up on my “to do” list!
Bill
Hello David,
Yes, there is! See Tim Erickson’s wonderful set of CODAP plugins
Near the bottom of his page is one called Scrambler. You can drag or import the URL for this plugin into your CODAP document that has your dataset. Click on the number of times you want to do the scrambling. Voilá!
Bill
Hi Jessica and Jacob,
Just checked and am not having troubles opening files with CODAP. Can you give more details about where the file is located and the method by which you are attempting to open it?
Jessica you mention you are “sharing files” with your colleague. Be aware that if two people open the same Google Drive file at the same time and make changes, this can lead to confusing behavior and corrupt files at worst.
Bill
Hello Jacob,
Sorry but there is no way to duplicate CODAP components within a document.
Thanks for the question,
Bill
Hello Jacob,
Thanks for letting us know that you also would appreciate being able to change the ranges of the bands.
The bands are currently chosen such that each has approximately 20% of the values. This frequently leads to oddness, especially with highly skew distributions.
Our plan is to make it possible to drag the boundaries between bands on the legend and to make it possible add or delete bands.
Bill
I’m not sure what you mean by “stuck in step 3.” Can you describe more about what you are unable to do?
If your computer can access the Internet through a browser CODAP should work fine for you. Caveats: Chrome works a bit better than other browsers, and a mouse or trackpad work better than touch.
Measures for Selection now works for all measures, not just the least squares regression line.
Once enabled from the eyeball menu measures like the mean or median will respond to selection. So, for example, in the Mammals example document, if you are showing the mean of Lifespan on a plot, the mean will not show until you have some cases selected. Once you do, the mean showing will be the mean Lifespan of just those cases.
