Displaying metrics for the MaRS graph inside Dynamo and Refinery

The last few days have been a lot of fun, as some of you will have noticed on my Twitter or LinkedIn feeds.

Since the last post, where I announced the fact we’ve been working on Project Rediscover, I’ve spent quite a bit of time reworking the graph to have more reusable chunks. Here’s a recent snapshot of the graph:

A version of the MaRS graph in Dynamo

In the last post, the subgraph that displays the metrics as text and the radar chart – both to the right of the image – was hardcoded to the exact metrics we were dealing with. To make it easier to add new metrics – as well as to be used with different metrics in another graph – I refactored that section of the graph to be more flexible and accept a list of metrics along with information on whether they’re to be minimised or maximised by Refinery.

Here are the sections that display the text for the metrics as well as the radar graph:

The subset of the graph for metrics display

I did my best to make the resultant graph customizable, such as with the number of bands to display. By default it…

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