Week 5 - Continuing interactivity with bqplot

Time to start talking about interactivity in more detail!

During class today, we will explore creating interactive visualizations using bqplot. For next week, we will discuss the taxonomy of interactive visualizations and how we can use that understanding to better guide our construction.

• Narrative Visualization by Segel and Heer
• Watch This: A Taxonomy for Dynamic Data Visualization by Cottam et al
• FiveThirtyEight Datasets

Downloads

Data:

• The UFO Sitings Dataset (13Mb) - ufo-scrubbed-geocoded-time-standardized-00.csv
• Michigan Depth Map (86Mb) - michigan_lld.flt
• Wealth of Nations Data - nations.json

Resources

• Wealth of Nations Library - wealth_of_nations.py
• Github pages: https://pages.github.com/

Optional Reading List

1. Video about bqplot
2. An introduction to Grammar of Graphics
3. ipywidgets Docs; Traitlets Docs; bqplot Docs

Materials

• Lecture 5: (view, source, present)
• Notebook: inClass_week05: (view, download)
• Notebook: prep_notebook_week05: (view, download)
• Python Script: wealth_of_nations: (download)

Materials from Previous Courses

• Notebook: fall2019_examples_week05: (view, download)
• Notebook: spring2019_notes_week05_part1: (view, download)
• Notebook: spring2019_notes_week05_part2: (view, download)