States to Shapes

I started working on this visualation after coming across Mike Bostock’s shape tweening bl.ock , which was done for one state. The source for this data is Insurance Institute for Highway Service(IIHS). The size of the square is based on the motor vehicle deaths per 100,000 people(2015). ...

May 10, 2017 · 3 min · 575 words · Senthil Thyagarajan

Harry Potter Characters.

Across 7 books/ 8 movies there are so many characters in this series by J.K Rowling. For this project I have got the data from data.world. All files here were combined to create a json with nodes and links. Using d3js I have visualized the characters connected to each other. ...

May 2, 2017 · 2 min · 378 words · Senthil Thyagarajan

Breweries or Wineries ??

When you think about Texas, the first thing that would come in mind is barbecue which of course pairs well with a good beer. In this post I have mapped each state in the US ranked based on the breweries or wineries present. I got the data from the Brewers Association and the American Winery Guide. With data visualization being so important in representing the dataset I have used hexbins shapefile from Don Meltz’s repo. ...

April 29, 2017 · 1 min · 86 words · Senthil Thyagarajan

Indian Premier League so far.

Indian Premier League(IPL) has had 13 different teams over the past ten years. In this project I have tried to visualize how these teams have performed over the years. ...

April 10, 2017 · 4 min · 659 words · Senthil Thyagarajan

Maps and gifs

As I have been using R for a while, one of the things I wanted to do was a time series map. Most of the time series maps I see have sliders to change the years. While looking at how to make time series maps I happened to lear how to make a GIF with a set of images. So I thought, how about making an election based map over the past elections....

March 20, 2017 · 4 min · 655 words · Senthil Thyagarajan