I currently am working on a data visualization project that demonstrates the change in number of US movies produced with various genres through the last century. It is required for me to use Actionscript and Flash, and I will use bubbles/icons to represent different genres, hence the icons size will vary from decade to decade. After researching I found the similar effect I'm looking for here :
http://renaissance-creator.deviantar...g-Bar-42746578
http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&se...flash#/d25nu1p ,

but I'd need something slightly different: the size of the data bubbles will change accordingly to the increase or decrease of the recorded data and not always get bigger like the link sample. Can someone please help me with the coding for it? I have spent more than a week to research online but still no decent solution, and the project deadline is already in the next 3 days
I intended to manipulate the size of these bubble data using simply tween, and the users can use the slider to run back and forth the decade marks to see the changes (bubbles get bigger or smaller accordingly) It'd be no problem to do it manually if I just need to let the animation run in 1 direction, but I'd need it to go on multiple directions on timeline (back 1 decade, forth 2 decades, forth 5 decades and back 1 again and so forth) with smooth transition of the bubbles, which should be done by actionscript and I have no idea how to, I'm still far from getting the intermediate level of AS and my lecturer didn't really instruct anything about that I really need some urgent help now.
I would appreciate every help or suggestion on where I can find this tutorial, if any available. Thank you very much. I hope I made myself clear. Ah and I'm using Adobe Flash CS4.