Viz Audience; More Iodide, Javascript & Vega-lite (and maybe Idyll)

Installation instructions: Idyll

We’ll be using Idyll to do some web-dev and we need to install another package manager, npm, to install Idyll and other Idyll-related packages.

Please follow these installation instructions to install the necessary packages.

Optional reading list

Same Data, Multiple Perspectives
FDV, Ch. 29: Telling a story and making a point
Iodide Docs
vega-lite docs - in particular: Vega-lite transformations & Vega-lite selections
Idyll Docs

Lectures

Lecture 10 - Viz audience, Final Project Info

Considerations of audience, review about final projects, more with vega lite & Iodide, Idyll

Examples

Prep Iodide Notebook, Week 10

Prep Iodide Notebook

Past Notebook: Prep Iodide Notebook, Spring 2020

Data

The GDP dataset (online)

GDP dataset from FRED (stored online for easy linking in Iodide)

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.

Assignments

Idyll Installation Instructions

Install Idyll