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Beautiful use of D3. Looks like something Bostock himself would've made for the New York Times.
by andrewstuart2 12y ago
Beautiful use of D3. Looks like something Bostock himself would've made for the New York Times.
- couchand 12y agoAgreed. I like the sort of informal feel to it, calling back to a sketch. I'm a big fan of the parallel lines chart, and this one is well executed. The data labels are unobtrusive, appearing on hover to let you dive in. The data set is coordinated with navigation on the timeline above using the principle of object constancy [0]. I really like that you can click a language to pin it; you can focus on a few languages and watch their evolution over time by scrubbing the line chart. (I don't like that if a pinned language falls off the chart at one point in time it isn't restored when you go back to a time that it's on the chart.) I like the idea with the small multiples below, but I wish there was less wasted space; it's hard to see very many at one time. There's not really a need for full-blown small multiples here - vertically-aligned sparklines would be more effective. If they were in the same table as the parallel lines it would allow a deeper exploration of the data. [0]: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/constancy/ http://bost.ocks.org/mike/constancy/