Data Sketches | A year of exotic data visualizations
summary
Year-long Data Sketches collaboration with Shirley Wu produces a monthly pair of data visuals, many published with writeups. Builds include a 5,000‑medal Olympic feather chart, an 800‑row Lord of the Rings chord‑mutation, a 3,000‑person royal genealogy network, 200 Dragon Ball Z fights, and 87 butterfly species—most scraped from Google Spreadsheets, IMDB, Goodreads API or hand‑copied. Uses precalculate visual variables in R to speed browsers and custom SVG paths with D3 and geometry hacks; results are interactive web pieces that mostly work and reveal surprising quirks.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 2:59lessons learned challenges faced insights gathered
- 3:50Google
- 4:38Scrape
- 11:10Get a feeling of accuracy & completeness of your data
- 13:30It's OK to precalculate fixed visual variables
- 18:27Design with code
- 21:19Sketch the rough visual shape to catch thinking errors
- 24:56Try to add extra layers of detail to the design
- 32:50Embrace your tool's advanced functionality
- 38:41The other stuff matters too
- 38:58collaborating
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