Assignment 3 - Introduction to D3 - (100 points)



Due Date: 3/6/2016 at 11:59pm

Objectives:



  • Familiarize yourself with D3
  • Learn about interaction in D3
  • Explore a data set using visualization techniques

Download the houses data



Download the houses data. This dataset is courtesy of the CMU Statlib.

Explore and Visualize the housing data (40 points)



To explore the data and learn more about it create the following interactive visualizations

  • Line graph (10 points)
  • Parallel coordinates (10 points)
  • Scatter plot matrix (10 points)
  • Any other visualization (10 points) to highlight findings

Data visualizations of your choice (60 points)



Find a dataset of your choice from the CSV repository (or check with me if you are going to use some other dataset) and create at least three other visualizations. Please create at least one interactive geovisualization (20 points) in D3. Other visualizations you could create are: force-directed graph, treemaps, scatterplots, and others.

Uploading visualizations and linking to your blog



Use http://bl.ocks.org/ to upload all your visualizations to blocks and post links to the interactive visualizations to your blog.

Submitting the Assignment



Email me a link to your blog post as your submission. In addition to the visualizations, include a README style description at the end of your post and anything you would like to tell me about the assignment.