Dev tools · September 24, 2024
GitHub Repo Visualizer Using D3
I built this as part of my quest to properly learn data visualization. The code is the easy part! Some lessons learned: - personal verification of the the general truth that pie charts are tough! and the returns are not great for the effort due to people's difficulties perceiving angles - may not use "vanilla" d3 with no React. was difficult to adapt for mobile - the GitHub API provides fairly standardized responses so building dynamic charts wasn't too bad. But when working with streaming data (say Kafka) I can see this getting interesting... schema registry should help but creating a view…
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GitHub Repo Visualizer Using D3 is a tool that creates interactive data visualizations of GitHub repository information using D3. Built as a learning project for data visualization, it dynamically generates charts from GitHub API data and demonstrates techniques for handling standardized data sources. The creator documented lessons learned about visualization challenges, including pie chart limitations and mobile responsiveness considerations with vanilla D3.
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I built this as part of my quest to properly learn data visualization. The code is the easy part! Some lessons learned: - personal verification of the the general truth that pie charts are tough! and the returns are not great for the effort due to people's difficulties perceiving angles - may not use "vanilla" d3 with no React. was difficult to adapt for mobile - the GitHub API provides fairly standardized responses so building dynamic charts wasn't too bad. But when working with streaming data (say Kafka) I can see this getting interesting... schema registry should help but creating a view into the data with a lookback would be interesting with d3, done it with altair before.
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