MATLAB DATAVIS Contest

Entry for the Spring 2009 MATLAB Data Visualization Contest

Author: Alan Chalker

Creation Date: 4/7/09

Contents

Animation of result versus time improvements to score

Below is an animation showing how the leading entries stats evolved over the contest.

Load contest data

Load the contest data

load contest_data
score=[d.score];
timestamp=[d.timestamp];
result=[d.result];
cpu_time=[d.cpu_time];
passed=[d.passed];
charcount=[d.charCount];

Setup figure

Sets up the figure, axes, and text objects to sizes / positions good for the animation

figure('Position',[100 100 800 600],'Color','w');
td=subplot(4,3,[1 4 7 10]);
set(gca,'Visible','off');
text(0,.2,{'Author:' 'Title:' 'Score:' 'Result:' 'CPU_time:' 'Length:'},'FontSize',10,'Interpreter','none');
text(.35,.35,'Current Leading Entry','FontSize',10);
text(0,1,'Submission Time:','FontSize',10);
text(0,.7,{'Author:' 'Title:' 'Score:' 'Result:' 'CPU_time:' 'Length:'},'FontSize',10,'Interpreter','none');
text(.35,.85,'Current Entry','FontSize',10);
st=text(.2,.96,'','FontSize',10);
ce=text(.4,.7,'','FontSize',10,'Interpreter','none');
le=text(.4,.2,'','FontSize',10,'Interpreter','none');

% Find all the leaders so we can setup the Y axis limits appropriately
topscore=Inf;
leaderind=1;
for x=1:size(d,2)
    entry=d(x);
    if topscore>entry.score
        leaderind(end+1)=x;
        topscore=entry.score;
    end
end
% Ignore the first few leaders because they are outliers
leaderind=leaderind(4:end);

% Sets up the plots on the right side to graphically show the leader
sc=subplot(4,3,[2 3]);
set(gca,'Xtick',[],'XtickLabel',[],'YScale','log');
title('Score of Leading Entries');
axis(gca,[min(timestamp) max(timestamp) min(score(leaderind)) max(score(leaderind))]);
hold on;

ct=subplot(4,3,[5 6]);
set(gca,'Xtick',[],'XtickLabel',[]);
title('CPU Time of Leading Entries');
axis(gca,[min(timestamp) max(timestamp) min(cpu_time(leaderind)) max(cpu_time(leaderind))]);
hold on;

re=subplot(4,3,[8 9]);
set(gca,'Xtick',[],'XtickLabel',[],'YScale','log');
title('Result of Leading Entries');
axis(gca,[min(timestamp) max(timestamp) min(result(leaderind)) max(result(leaderind))]);
hold on;

cc=subplot(4,3,[11 12]);
set(gca,'Xtick',[],'XtickLabel',[]);
title('Length of Leading Entries');
axis(gca,[min(timestamp) max(timestamp) min(charcount(leaderind)) max(charcount(leaderind))]);
xlabel('Submission Time');
hold on;

Create frames

Show in sequence data for all the entries. To make the movie not too long only grab every 25th frame.

k=1;
topscore=Inf;
leaderind=1;
for x=1:size(d,2)
    entry=d(x);
    subplot(td);
    set(ce,'String',{entry.author entry.title num2str(entry.score) num2str(entry.result) num2str(entry.cpu_time) num2str(entry.charCount)});
    set(st,'String',datestr(entry.timestamp,0));
    if topscore>entry.score
        set(le,'String',{entry.author entry.title num2str(entry.score) num2str(entry.result) num2str(entry.cpu_time) num2str(entry.charCount)});
        topscore=entry.score;
        leaderind(end+1)=x;
        subplot(sc);
        plot(timestamp(leaderind),score(leaderind));
        subplot(ct);
        plot(timestamp(leaderind),cpu_time(leaderind));
        subplot(re);
        plot(timestamp(leaderind),result(leaderind));
        subplot(cc);
        plot(timestamp(leaderind),charcount(leaderind));
    end
    if rem(x,25)==0
        drawnow;
        M(k)=getframe(gcf,[50 25 725 557]);
        k=k+1;
    end
end

Create animated .gif file

Convert the movie to an .gif

[im,map] = rgb2ind(M(k-1).cdata,256,'nodither');
im(1,1,1,36) = 0;
for x=1:k-1
    im(:,:,1,x) = rgb2ind(M(x).cdata,map,'nodither');
end

cd('html');
imwrite(im,map,'data.gif','DelayTime',0,'LoopCount',inf)
cd('..');

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