Exploring Different Visualizations

[lillixia]

Is our sunburst really the best visualization for the District budget?

For example, the NYTimes' visualization of the Obama 2013 budget (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/13/us/politics/2013-budget-proposal-graphic.html?_r=0) uses different bubbles to explore and separate different issues. It also allows us to focus on a particular issue (instead of zooming in or out). See D3 charts for more visualization options.

[madewithsalt]

One of the previous issues in the original repository was the desire to "zoom in" on a particular category to see it in greater detail and drill down. Perhaps a pie chart is not the right visualization for that behavior?

What might better display the data and also be able to "drill down" in an intuitive way, without completely changing the overall look and feel as you zoom in?

D3 has many different default chart types that you should be able to use as a starting point.
There's a ton of great ideas of charts to be found at: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery

[yprabhu]

Found this http://www.jasondavies.com/coffee-wheel/ in https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery. We can add more data as we drill down.

[ghost]

Is there a way that we can have further information pop up as we drill down more? i.e., can we have more information appear as the space available becomes greater?

[cfarm]

For reference, here's NYTimes Github https://github.com/nytimes

[lillixia]

Oh, and here's a great repository for the NYTimes bubbles (though it's not by Shan Carter, it's by Jim Vallandingham): https://github.com/vlandham/gates_bubbles

[cfarm]

Nice find! The website for that repo also has an excellent tutorial on the
d3 bubbles visualization.

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Alexandra McFadden <
[email protected]> wrote:

Oh, and here's a great repository for the NYTimes bubbles (though it's not
by Shan Carter, it's by Jim Vallandingham):
https://github.com/vlandham/gates_bubbles

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[kleljedal]

I explored a different color palette with these two images. One shows the whole budget and one shows how it would display as a breakdown of the Jr. ROTC Programs. I also updated the colors in the JS files on my computer, but unfortunately I am not as skilled on Github to move it over and I couldn't work locally on the HTML to test how the layout would work. Feel free to let me know what you think.