Hmm.... I don't have an ideal example, but I can approach the
question in a few ways.

1. This isn't so much a charting interface, but I'd recommend
checking out PNC Bank's Virtual Wallet because it does incorporate
game elements very effectively into a financial website. A demo is
available at http://www.pncvirtualwallet.com. Select "Explore
Virtual Wallet", then "See What's Inside". The orange circles at
the top will navigate you through some amazing concepts; I'd
recommend watching the videos for all of them.

2. Gapminder World has an incredibly robust charting interface that
isn't very gamey, but does encourage play.
http://graphs.gapminder.org/world. You can change the value of
either axis, assign third and fourth values the size and color of
each bubble, change the range of bubble sizes, change bubble
opacity, change time period or run period as a movie, highlight
specific countries, track any country's movement over time, change
the whole view to a global map, and on and on. You can spend days
playing with it.

3. Applications like the Simpsons avatar creator apply very gamelike
aesthetics and spirit to something that isn't a game at all. At
some level these are more enjoyable to use because there's a
lightness to the interface that makes it feel fun in and of itself.
Go to simpsonsmovie.com, click "Enter Site", then wait for "Creat
your own Simpsons Avatar" to appear at the top of the screen.

4. Some games can have fairly robust displays for quantitative
information with interesting interfaces, often rendered in
unconventional and highly visual ways. I'd recommend Sim City,
Civilization IV, World of Warcraft, Sins of a Solar Empire, and
Final Fantasy XII for inspiration.


Anyone else have any examples?

John


--- In GameUIdesign@yahoogroups.com, "Theba Islam" <theba.islam@...>
wrote:
>
>
> Hi John, looking forward to hearing more about the discussion.
>
> Was wondering if you or anyone could help me with this –
> I'm redesigning an extremely dated charting application used by our
> Rates Traders.
> Though dated and clunky the functionality is very sophisticated,
> allowing them to do volatility & correlation analysis and risk
> modelling.
>
> The goal is to make the application more playful, game like, in
allowing
> Traders to pick and choose from the 1000s of instruments and
markets,
> customise historic volatility calculations, drag and drop formulas
into
> series/weight combinations and redraw charts.
>
> Have you come across anything similar in Banks or even games that
could
> help?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Theba
>