Week 12 - Idyll & Intro to Scientific Viz with AVL

Today we’ll cover a brief intro of Idyll and web development in general.

We’ll also be getting a lecture from the Advanced Visualization Lab at NCSA who will talk about scientific and cinematic visualization. We’ll cover scientific visualization more next week.

Downloads & Links

Data

1. Corgis per country over time (corgs_per_country_over_time_columns_2020.csv)

Links & Code

1. We’ll be building toward a webpage like this today using Idyll’s built-in components.
2. We got to this Markdown code right here in Class this week.
3. Full Markdown code for this week and next week available right here.

Optional reading list

1. Idyll Docs - in particular: Built in/npm installed components
2. Works of AVL

Materials

• Lecture 12, Part 1: (view, source, present)
• Lecture 12, Part 2: (view, source, present)
• Notebook: calc_corgData: (view, download)
• Python Script: grabCorgData_subpages: (download)