I’m in the stage where I’m starting to be able to do more, but nothing is easy yet :). Fortunately, I’m heading out to Western CT for a very hilly & rocky 7 mile trail race early tomorrow morning, so by tomorrow afternoon my body will be as tired as my brain is now.
This week was effectively a 3-day week as I spent Monday prepping & giving an unrelated presentation & yesterday was an offsite with the office. Before I head out for the weekend, just wanted to celebrate two things: reading in real data & creating a day-of-week profile.
London makes data from their cycle program easily available here. This is just # of rented per day since summer 2010. Reading in data isn’t so hard now. But, I had to wrap my head around the nature of callbacks & asynchronous loading. More on that later.
Creating the day of week profile required a lot more array manipulation than I’d done before, in particular leveraging native array methods like “forEach” and “filter.” This gave me more practice with call backs as well. And, as a bonus, I got to spend time with date handling… which was an adventure. Next week I might try translating dates into numbers, instead of treating as dates, with a function for going to & from the date strings/numbers.
In the chart below, blue is weekends & red is Monday. The bottom chart shows the typical day compared to average, with Sunday on the left. Obviously I need to add in some labels to make this more meaningful. I think that Monday is being dragged down to average a bit by holidays, which I haven’t handled for.
Will put on fiddle on Monday.
Next steps next week: scales & mouseovers & (maybe) reading in data using native javascript!
learning dynamic data viz 