Day Twelve

Log

Sometimes you just need a little text and a number

I have to produce some reports and at times I don't want to make a chart, just a list and corresponding numbers. Here I loooked back at some tutorials from superHi's data visualisation / D3 course (which I would highly recommend!).

Even though I've been plkuging away at D3 now, I still get a bit confused about groups, and selections and so forth, but here is what I tink is going on

1. Create a group for each of the rows based on the number of rows in the data set
2. In the group append some text to it - the SA3 name
3. Append more text: this time the number of dwellings in each SA3
4. Then style in CSS

Becasue I'm not very comfortable in JS, I tend to learn things and then crib from these tutorials. It often leads to mistakes, but I find I am getting better (I hope 😬) at woring out at least what is going on. Learning from dofferent people has meant I sometimes get a bit mixed up in the differences in styles. Doing these regulalry at least helps build some of that recognition ...

The date today is actually 19th July so I am a bit behind, but committed at least to do one for each day, even if these days are behind. Comfort in the knowledge that I have been making all kinds of maps for a client which has been fantastic (and also good to buid some of the things i have learnt in here into small examples so that I can easly find them in the future)

Note: I also used a sorting example I have back in day two - it's already helping 🙃