More with Jekyll+Altair, Intro to SciViz

We talk a little bit about 3D graphics and how it relates to Scientific Visualiazation, and carry on with Jekyll and add in some Altair in Python.

Also, here is a slightly more in-depth explanation of path/ray tracing:

Extra files

Full corgi dataset available here.

Optional reading list

Jekyll Tutorials (hit “Next” to see them at bottom)
Altair docs - in particular Encoding Data Types, Vegalite-Altair conversions, Binning, Filter transforms and interactive examples

Lectures

Lecture 12.1 - 3D graphics, Intro to SciViz

How your computer and the internet process 3D graphics. What is scientific visualization?

Examples

In class Jekyll materials, Week 12

Updating storage of Jekyll files in class

Prep Jekyll materials, Week 12

We'll be building toward a webpage like this today using Jekyll+Altair.

In Class Notebook, Week 12 - (download)

In class notebook

Prep Notebook, Week 12 - (download)

Prep notebook for this week

Data

The Mobility dataset (online)

A dataset of USA "mobility" which (I think comes from a a large census study from 1989-2015) and is collected in several places including right here. Here "mobility" is refering to how easy it is for a person to move up in economic status (more info can be found here) based on factors like parental income, location, race, etc.

Buildings dataset

Illinois buildings dataset

Corgis per country over time

This dataset is from the Cardigan Archives and scraped using Beautiful Soup in Python and further processed in Python into this form.