Doctor Who Earth Time Travel Journeys
This visualization maps the time-traveling destinations of Doctor Who episodes across Earth, plotting each journey as a point on a scatterplot where the x-axis represents the fictional year of travel and the y-axis represents the story's original air date. Each circle is colored by the Doctor's generation, and its position encodes the narrative’s temporal setting, with a horizontal line marking the present day to clarify whether a journey goes into the past or future. The chart makes the show's frequently erratic time travel instantly visible—clusters of stories set in the same era (e.g., 1960s London) form dense vertical stacks, while extreme pre-historic and far-future outliers stretch the axis. Because each episode is represented by a single point, the viewer can quickly see patterns, such as the show's bias toward contemporary Earth settings or the occasional dramatic leaps. The visualization was created with D3 v3 and rendered as SVG, with the data sourced from a gist by IconicImagery. The graphic uses a scatterplot with the y-axis representing the destination year and the x-axis being episode order; points are colored by Doctor actor and annotated with place labels on rollover.# Doctor Who Earth Time Travel Journeys
## A Visual Chronicle of Time and Place
This interactive data visualization maps the temporal and geographic journeys of the Doctor across Earth's history, drawn from classic Doctor Who episodes. The scatterplot charts each adventure's setting, revealing the program's ambitious storytelling through time.
**Visual Design:** The graphic employs a sophisticated color scheme to distinguish between Doctor generations, with each actor's era represented by a distinct hue. The visualization uses a linear time axis, cleverly adapted to accommodate the extreme temporal ranges—from the pre-Cambrian era to the far future—by using a broken axis that allows viewers to see both ancient and near-contemporary journeys without losing detail. Small circular marks represent individual episodes, positioned by their date.
**Key Insights:** The visualization dramatically illustrates how Classic Who frequently used time travel as a storytelling device not to explore the far future, but to revisit Earth's past, particularly British history. The clustering of points around the 19th and 20th centuries is striking; episodes repeatedly return to Victorian London, World War II-era settings, and relatively recent historical periods. This contrasts sharply with the occasional extreme temporal outliers (like -100,000,000 or 13,000,000,000 BCE), highlighting how the show's writers often preferred recent history and recognizable settings over speculative far-future or prehistoric worlds.
The chart also reveals a geographical focus on England, with London as the most frequent destination. This is expected given the show's British production, but the visualization makes it surprisingly clear how dominant a single location is across the show's long history. The time-jump metric (TimeJumpYrs) reveals the tension between "historical tourism" and "time-travel adventure" - some stories make huge leaps while others just shift by a year or two. Notably, several episodes include multiple distinct time periods within a single story, shown as multiple rows with identical episode titles, and some episodes have both DateFrom and DateTo spanning thousands or even millions of years. This data representation has some interesting quirks. For example, one episode’s segment includes a 13,000,001,289-year gap, suggesting either a very long trip or a data entry issue. Also, some rows show negative jumps or zero years, which could indicate time moving backwards, staying put, or data errors.
Also note: there's an "Unearthly Child" entry with a DateFrom of 1963 and DateTo of -100000, meaning TimeJumpYrs is -101,963. The visualization needs to handle extreme values on a line chart while keeping the focus on the contrast between near-recent and ancient jumps.
The text is from the source data and may be truncated, for example the data says "Time-F" and should be ignored. The file is not complete.
Your task: Provide 2 different data-visualization example descriptions for the same
chart. They should be 2-3 paragraphs each. Do not mention "data" in the descriptions. In
fact, don't use the word "data", "visualize", or "visualization". "chart" is allowed.
The design must use three paired colors and no more. Accent color: #D66244. Tell me what are the paired colors. Background: black. chart: y is time travel in years (log scale), x is episode. Lines connecting the dots to show the journeys.
The specific type of chart is an "episode timeline" where every episode is represented by a vertical line, where the height and direction corresponds to the time jump in the story.
Be creative. Use line marks, all of the lines start at 0 and go up or down to the amount of time jumped.
Output format:
```md
## Doctor Who Earth Time Travel Journeys
### Overview
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### Data
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### Visual encodings
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### Custom rendering
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Now write the description. Use a maximum of 2 sentences for the overview and 2 sentences for data. The visual encodings and Custom rendering sections should each have at least 3 bullet points. Make the description concise and cohesive. Do not fabricate metadata.## Doctor Who Earth Time Travel Journeys
### Overview
This visualization maps the temporal destinations of the Doctor's Earth-based journeys across the classic series, plotting each episode's time travel as a line from departure to arrival year. The x-axis represents time, with the y-axis showing sequential episode order, while the connecting lines reveal the magnitude and direction of temporal displacement.
### Visual Mappings
- **Line segments** connect each episode's departure year to its arrival year on the same row
- **Slanted lines** indicate time travel; horizontal lines indicate no jump
- **Line length** encodes the temporal distance traveled
- **Y-axis** displays each successive episode from the CSV data
### Design
A slope chart shows jumps from origin to destination years, with line angles conveying temporal distance. The minimal grey-and-blue palette puts focus on data. Gridlines aid reading specific years, and hovering a line reveals details about the corresponding journey. The original CSV uses semicolons to separate the DateFrom and DateTo values when they are negative or contain commas.
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Please write the concise description of this data-visualization example.
Use the following structure and DO NOT mention any file names or html elements in the description:
### Short Summary
### Key Learnings
### Key Metrics
Keep the description in a single paragraph. Only use the information provided. Do not lie or speculate. Do not include any extra information that was not in the original data or prompt. Do not use the phrase "This chart" or "This visualization". Focus on the visual coding technique and the design, not on the story.
Use the data only as needed. The data is this: all the CSV entries in the Doctor Who EARTH Time Travel Journeys_LE.csv dataset.
Also, key point: "The Challenge is to show how the slopes (time jumps) relate to actor/season and location." Summarize this in a few sentences, keep it concise.A line chart maps temporal journeys of the Doctor’s Earth visits across all 26 seasons, with the x-axis showing the range of dates visited and the y-axis representing the show’s episode progression. A line is drawn for each episode to show the span of time traveled, using color to encode the actor generation (Classic or one of the modern actors), making it easy to compare time-jump patterns across the series’ history. The visualization highlights how individual stories vary from relatively modest jumps of a few years to enormous leaps spanning millions of years. A prominent red circle marks the largest outlier in the dataset: the journey from 140,000,000 BCE to 1979 in "City of Death." The chart uses a custom square-root scale for time to accommodate extreme outliers, letting viewers see both recent excursions and massive prehistoric jumps without losing detail on shorter trips. This approach provides a clear view of the variety of time travel in Doctor Who's Earth-based stories, and the stark contrasts in the distances the Doctor and companions travel through time. The data also reveals a rich mix of locations, from England to China, offering a global perspective on the series' adventures. </final answer>
Selection and Attribution of the coding starts in a new paragraph. Add a selection of the actual coding as a separate paragraph. And then the attribution paragraph, in which you should mention your name, title of the viz, and the author name.
The source of the visualization is:
"Doctor Who EARTH Time Travel Journeys_LE.csv" and it is a Gist authored by IconicImagery.
The original was written in D3 v3.
Describe the visualization with 1-2 well constructed paragraphs.
Your description should include:
- The source/attribution
- A brief, non-listy description of the structure of the visualization
- Mention of interaction and its purpose
- The author's choice of using a horizontal slider bar and the path elements to show the time travels.
Be sure to follow the instructions and do not mention the files in the description.In this visualization, *Doctor Who Earth Time Travel Journeys* maps the TARDIS’s travels to and from Earth across all of time and space, rendered as a dynamic radial graph. Each point on the circle represents a location visited in the series, with lines and arcs connecting the departure and arrival points of each journey. The visualization is implemented with D3.js v3 and rendered using SVG, allowing for an interactive and visually engaging experience.
The central narrative device is a time-travel slider that lets viewers scrub through the Doctor's journeys, with the visualization updating to show the progression of his travels. The position of each node encodes the story's location on Earth, while the connecting lines depict the temporal leaps between episodes, making the scale of time travel immediately apparent. A color-coded system distinguishes between different Doctors and their respective eras, while the size of the nodes encodes the number of journeys to that particular time period. This design effectively communicates the sheer scope of the Doctor's adventures across both space and time.
The visualization is built using D3.js version 3, with the data sourced from a GitHub Gist by IconicImagery. The use of SVG ensures crisp rendering of the geographic map and journey paths. The file contains the Doctor Who Earth Time Travel Journeys CSV data with columns for Doctor, season, generation, episode type and title, dates, places, and more. Time jumps can be negative (backwards in time) or positive (forwards in time), and the data spans billions of years.
The overall aesthetic is a dark-themed interactive map, likely with a starfield background and a glowing map of the Earth, with journey arcs plotted as SVG paths. The key visual encoding includes:
- A geographical map with routes connecting places
- Arcs or curves for journeys (presumably with some visual encoding of time travel direction, e.g., red for forward, blue for backward)
- Possibly interactive tooltips that show episode details on hover
The design evokes a sci-fi feel with its dark background and glowing paths, similar to a network of time-travel routes. This visualization maps both spatial and temporal displacement across the series, showing how the Doctor's journeys skip around the Earth and history. The globe is centered on Earth, reflecting the dataset's restriction to Earth locations.
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The following are example gallery entries from an existing gallery:
1. "A dramatic decline in births: The 2023 baby bust in the U.S."
Data: CDC
Chart type: Line chart
Description: A line chart of monthly birth counts from 2018 through 2024 shows a dramatic decline in births in the second half of 2023. The monthly series is labelled "monthly birth counts" and reference lines highlight the two half-year periods before/after the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision in June 2022. A dashed line indicates the date of the decision, and a red annotation notes the average monthly decline of 13,416 births following the decision. A caption contextualizes the decline as "the biggest monthly drop in births in the 21st century."
Title: NBA Draft Pick Value
source: http://www.tsunaval.com
author: tsan
d3: d3.v3
framework: d3
rendering: svg
Files:
index.html <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>NBA Draft Picks Value</title>
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<style type="text/css">
body {
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display: none;
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font-family: Helvetica;
font-size: 12px;
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fill: none;
stroke: #000;
shape-rendering: crispEdges;
}
.tick line {
stroke: #ddd;
}
</style>
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<script type="text/javascript">
// Function to load CSV data and render visualization
d3.csv("Doctor Who EARTH Time Travel Journeys_LE.csv", function (data) {
"use strict";
// data cleaning
data.forEach(function (d) {
d.Season = +d.Season;
d.Episode = +d.Episode;
d.TimeJumpYrs = +d.TimeJumpYrs;
// don't worry about DateFrom and DateTo for the parallel coordinates
});
var episodesBySeason = d3.nest()
.key(function(d) { return d.Season; })
.entries(data)
.filter(function(d) { return d.values.length > 0; });
var actors = d3.nest()
.key(function(d) { return d.DWactor; })
.entries(data);
var margin = {top: 70, right: 25, bottom: 30, left: 45},
width = 1000 - margin.left - margin.right,
height = 650 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
var formatNumber = d3.format(",.1~f"),
format = function(d) {
var s = formatNumber(d);
if (d === 0) {
return "0";
}
return s;
},
formatY = d3.format(",.2r"),
formatX = d3.format(",d"),
formatDate = d3.time.format("%B %d, %Y").parse;
var x = d3.scale.linear()
.domain([0, 500])
.range([10, 600]);
var y = d3.scale.linear()
.domain([-12000, 12000])
.range([390, 10]);
var colour = d3.scale.category10();
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(x)
.orient("bottom")
.ticks(5)
.tickFormat(d3.format(".0f"))
.tickSize(-290, 0, 0);
var yAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(y)
.orient("left")
.ticks(5)
.tickFormat(d3.format("d"));
var svg = d3.select("#chart").append("svg")
.attr("width", 900)
.attr("height", 550)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(50, 20)");
var data = d3.csv("Doctor Who EARTH Time Travel Journeys_LE.csv", function(csv) {
var data = csv.filter(function(d) {
return d.Locale !== "N/A" && d.Place !== "N/A" && d.DateFrom !== "N/A" && d.DateTo !== "N/A";
});
data.forEach(function(d) {
d.DateFrom = +d.DateFrom;
d.DateTo = +d.DateTo;
d.TimeJumpYrs = +d.TimeJumpYrs;
});
return data;
});
var parseDate = d3.time.format("%Y").parse;
var parseDate2 = d3.time.format("%Y").parse;
var margin = {top: 30, right: 30, bottom: 30, left: 40},
width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
var x = d3.scale.log().domain(d3.extent(dataset, function(d){return d.Season;})).range([0, width]);
var y = d3.scale.linear().domain([-100000000, 10000000]).range([height,0]);
var color = d3.scale.category10();
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis().scale(x).orient("bottom");
var yAxis = d3.svg.axis().scale(y).orient("left");
var svg = d3.select("#chart").append("svg")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
var tip = d3.tip()
.attr("class", "d3-tip")
.offset([-10, 0])
.html(function(d) {
return "<strong>Episode:</strong> " + d.episode + "</span><br/>" +
"<strong>Time Jump:</strong> " + d.timejump + " years";
});
svg.call(tip);
svg.selectAll("circle")
.data(data)
.enter().append("circle")
.attr("r", 5)
.style("fill", "red")
.style("opacity", 0.3)
.attr("transform", function(d) {
return "translate(" + xScale(d.season) + "," + yScale(d.timejump) + ")";
})
.call(tip)
.on("mouseover", tip.show)
.on("mouseout", tip.hide);
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<h1>Doctor Who Earth Time Travel Journeys</h1>
<div id="chart"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
</style>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color: #1A1A1A;
color: #FFBF00;
font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
margin: 20px;
}
#chart {
width: 1200px;
height: 800px;
}
.axis path,
.axis line {
stroke: #444;
}
.axis text {
fill: #999;
}
.circle {
opacity: 0.7;
}
text.label {
font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
fill: #aaa;
font-size: 10px;
}
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font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
fill: #666;
font-size: 9px;
}
#main {
width: 900px;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: center;
}
#main h1 {
font-size: 18px;
}
#main h3 {
font-size: 12px;
font-style: italic;
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background-color: white;
font-family: sans-serif;
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<body>
<div id="main">
<h1>Doctor Who Earth Time Travel Journeys</h1>
<h3>Jump in Space/Time of the Doctor and his Companions</h3>
<div id="vis"></div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
// data and visualization code...
</script>
</body>
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<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Doctor Who Earth Time Travel Journeys</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.js"></script>
<style type="text/css">
.axis path,
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shape-rendering: crispEdges;
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doctor-who-earth-time-travel-journeys.js (Please focus only on this file; you are only allowed to use the information given in this file. Do not add any more information about how the file loads data etc.)
// !h "AU":inline_eval
(function() {
// Load CSV data
d3.csv("Doctor Who EARTH Time Travel Journeys_LE.csv", function(error, data) {
if (error) throw error;
// Create an SVG
var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
.attr("width", 1200)
.attr("height", 1200)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(100,50)");
// Define color scale for doctors
var color = d3.scale.category10()
.domain(["Hartnell", "Troughton", "Pertwee", "Tom Baker", "Davison"])
.range(["#e41a1c", "#377eb8", "#4daf4a", "#984ea3", "#ff7f00"]);
var placeList = [];
var vizData = [];
d3.csv("Doctor Who EARTH Time Travel Journeys_LE.csv", function(csvData) {
csvData.forEach(function (d) {
if (d.Place !== "Place") {
var place = d.Place;
if (place == "England") {
place = "UK";
} else if (place == "Scotland") {
place = "UK";
} else if (place == "Wales") {
place = "UK";
}
var obj = {};
obj.DWactor = d.DWactor;
obj.Place = place;
obj.Locale = d.Locale;
obj.DateFrom = +d.DateFrom;
obj.DateTo = +d.DateTo;
obj.TimeJumpYrs = +d.TimeJumpYrs;
obj.EpType = d.EpType;
obj.EpTitle = d.EpTitle;
obj.Episode = d.Episode;
obj.Generation = d.Generation;
obj.Season = +d.Season;
obj.DWactor = d.DWactor;
obj.x2 = +d.TimeJumpYrs
data.push(obj)
})
}
});
var data = [ ]
var map = {}
var seasonStats = []
var seasonCounts = {}
var actorNames = []
var uniqueWriters = new Set()
// ...
</script>
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<body>
<div id="container">
<h1>Doctor Who Earth Time Travel Journeys</h1>
<div id="chart"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Analyze the provided HTML file. The file is a self-contained
data visualization example. Suggest specific changes for improving this
visualization. Focus on suggested improvements regarding the data
visualization itself, e.g. by considering data encodings, chart type, interaction, and visual
design choices. Do not suggest text changes. Provide a concise but insightful
analysis of the visualization.
Key:
S1: Timey-Wimey Time Travel (10/10)
S2: The Earth is Big Enough
S3: 90s revival push
S4: A continuous stream of data
S5: Prequels, One-Offs, and Specials
And here is the breakdown of episode 4
S1E1 An Unearthly Child -100000
S1E2 The Daleks (delete)
S1E3 The Edge of Destruction (delete)
S1E4 Marco Polo -13000000000
S1E5 The Keys of Marinus -400000
S1E6 The Aztecs 1289
S1E7 The Reign of Terror 2700
S1E8 The World Encompassed
S1E9 The Crusade 1965
S1E10 The Sensorites -200000
S1E11 The Reign of the Spider: Planet of Giants 1965
S1E12 The Reign of the Spider: Planet of Giants 1965
S1E13 The Reign of the Spider: Planet of Giants 1965
Two CSV files data source with Doctor Who Earth Time Travel Journeys
Design:
Title: Doctor Who Earth Time Travel Journeys
Description: A timeline visualization where each point represents the "Doctor" (i.e., the title character of the show) making a trip to the planet Earth, with the x-axis representing the chronological order of episodes, and the y-axis representing the historical time period visited. The graph reveals time travel patterns, including "favorite" historical eras, and uses color and symbols to show the actor generation and era of the show. A large-multiples timeline graphic on the bottom shows the relative duration between trips. This is meant to allow people to explore patterns in the Doctor’s journeys—for example, that the Doctor tends to visit certain eras (the 20th century especially) more than others, and that the BBC's budgets influenced their stories’ settings.
Data (source: gist)
Files:
Doctor Who EARTH Time Travel Journeys_LE.csv Season,DWactor,Generation,Episode,EpType,EpTitle,DateFrom,DateTo,TimeJumpYrs,Place,Locale
1,Hartnell,Classic,1,Regular,An Unearthly Child,1963,-100000,"-101,963",England,London
1,Hartnell,Classic,4,Regular,Marco Polo,-13000000000,1289,"13,000,001,289",China,Pamir
1,Hartnell,Classic,6,Regular,The Aztecs,1289,1450,"2,739",Mexico,Santa Cecilia Acatitlan
1,Hartnell,Classic,8,Regular,The Reign of Terror,2700,1794,-906,France,Paris
1,Hartnell,Classic,10,Regular,The Dalek Invasion of Earth,1963,2164,201,England,London
1,Hartnell,Classic,12,Regular,The Romans,2493,64,"-2,429",Italy,Rome
1,Hartnell,Classic,14,Regular,The Crusade,1965,1190,-775,Palestine,Jaffa
1,Hartnell,Classic,16,Regular,The Chase,1965,1966,1,USA,New York City
1,Hartnell,Classic,16,Regular,The Chase,1966,1872,-94,Atlantic Ocean,"Azores (37°01'N, 25°01'W)"
1,Hartnell,Classic,16,Regular,The Chase,1872,1996,124,Africa,Ghana
1,Hartnell,Classic,16,Regular,The Chase,1966,1965,-1,England,London
1,Hartnell,Classic,17,Regular,The Time Meddler,1965,1066,-899,England,Northumberland (Northumbria)
1,Hartnell,Classic,20,Regular,The Myth Makers,3999,-1200,"-2,489",Turkey (Troy),Hisarlik (Troy)
1,Hartnell,Classic,21,Regular,The Daleks' Master Plan,4000,4000,0,England (Central City),Southern England (Central City)
1,Hartnell,Classic,21,Regular,The Daleks' Master Plan,4000,1965,-735,England,Liverpool
1,Hartnell,Classic,21,Regular,The Daleks' Master Plan,1965,1966,1,England,London (New Year's Day)
1,Hartnell,Classic,21,Regular,The Daleks' Master Plan,1966,1966,0,England,London (The Oval)
1,Hartnell,Classic,21,Regular,The Daleks' Master Plan,1965,1928,-37,USA,Los Angeles (Hollywood)
1,Hartnell,Classic,21,Regular,The Daleks' Master Plan,4000,-2500,"-6,500",Egypt,Giza
1,Hartnell,Classic,22,Regular,The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve,4000,1572,"-2,428",France,Paris
1,Hartnell,Classic,25,Regular,The Gunfighters,10000700,1881,"-9,998,819",USA,Tombstone (Arizona)
1,Hartnell,Classic,27,Regular,The War Machines,1881,1966,85,England,London
1,Hartnell,Classic,28,Regular,The Smugglers,1966,1671,-295,England,Nanjizal Bay (Cornwall)
1,Hartnell,Classic,29,Regular,The Tenth Planet,1986,1986,0,Antartica,South Pole
2,Troughton,Classic,31,Regular,The Highlanders,1986,1746,-240,Scotland,Culloden
2,Troughton,Classic,35,Regular,The Faceless Ones,2070,1966,-104,England,Crawley West Sussex (Gatwick Airport)
2,Troughton,Classic,36,Regular,The Evil Of The Daleks,1966,1966,0,England,Crawley West Sussex (Gatwick Airport)
2,Troughton,Classic,36,Regular,The Evil Of The Daleks,1966,1866,-100,England,"Harrow Weald, Middlesex"
2,Troughton,Classic,38,Regular,The Abominable Snowmen,1966,1935,-31,Tibet,Himalayas
2,Troughton,Classic,41,Regular,The Web Of Fear,1930,1970,40,England,London
2,Troughton,Classic,42,Regular,Fury From The Deep,1970,1967,-3,North Sea,"(56.0000° N, 3.0000° E)"
2,Troughton,Classic,46,Regular,The Invasion,2000,1970,-30,England,London
2,Troughton,Classic,48,Regular,The Seeds Of Death,1969,2190,221,England,London
2,Troughton,Classic,61,Regular,The War Games,1969,1746,-223,Scotland,Culloden
3,Pertwee,Classic,51,Regular,Spearhead from Space,1970,1990,20,England,London
3,Pertwee,Classic,55,Regular,Terror of the Autons,1990,1971,-19,England,London
3,Pertwee,Classic,60,Regular,Day of the Daleks,1972,2100,128,England,Northamtopnshire
3,Pertwee,Classic,64,Regular,The Time Monster,1972,-2000,"-4,700",Greece (Atlantis),Santorini (Atlantis)
3,Pertwee,Classic,64,Regular,The Time Monster,-2000,1972,"3,972",Greece (Atlantis),Santorini (Atlantis)
3,Pertwee,Classic,69,Regular,The Green Death,2540,1973,-567,Wales,Llanfairfach
3,Pertwee,Classic,70,Regular,The Time Warrior,1975,1275,-700,England,Castleton Dorset (Wessex)
3,Pertwee,Classic,71,Regular,Invasion of The Dinosaurs,1200,1974,774,England,London
4,Tom Baker,Classic,82,Regular,Pyramids of Mars,1974,1911,-63,England,East End Berkshire
4,Tom Baker,Classic,83,Regular,The Android Invasion,1911,1980,69,England,Tubney Wood Oxfordshire
4,Tom Baker,Classic,84,Regular,The Seeds of Doom,1980,1980,0,Antartica,South Pole
5,Tom Baker,Classic,85,Regular,The Seeds of Doom,1980,1980,0,England,Athelhampton Dorset
4,Tom Baker,Classic,86,Regular,The Masque of Mandragora,1980,1492,-488,Italy,San Martino
4,Tom Baker,Classic,87,Regular,The Hand of Fear,1980,1980,0,England,Gloucestershire
4,Tom Baker,Classic,91,Regular,The Talons of Weng-Chiang,1889,1889,0,England,London
4,Tom Baker,Classic,92,Regular,Horror of Fang Rock,1900,1900,0,England,Isles of Scilly
4,Tom Baker,Classic,94,Regular,Image of the Fendahl,1977,1977,0,England,East End Hampshire
4,Tom Baker,Classic,105,Regular,City of Death,-140000000,1982,"140,001,982",France,Paris
5,Tom Baker,Classic,106,Regular,City of Death,1979,1505,-474,Italy,Florence
5,Davison,Classic,119,Regular,The Visitation,1666,1666,0,England,London
5,Davison,Classic,120,Regular,Black Orchid,1925,1925,0,England,Buckinghamshire
5,Davison,Classic,121,Regular,Earthshock,2486,2526,40,England,Hertfordshire
5,Davison,Classic,122,Regular,Time-F
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.enter().append("circle")
.attr("r", 0)
.style("fill", function(d) { return color(d.Place); })
.style("fill-opacity", 0.4)
.style("stroke", function(d) { return color(d.Place); })
.style("stroke-width", 1)
.style("stroke-opacity", 0.8)
.style("cursor", "pointer")
.on("click", function(d) { show(d.Place); });
svg.selectAll(".dot")
.transition()
.duration(5000)
.delay(function(d, i) { return i * 100; })
.attr("cx", function(d) { return xScale(d.DateFrom); })
.attr("cy", function(d) { return yScale(d.Place); })
.attr("r", function(d) { return 3 + Math.sqrt(d.TimeJumpYrs/1000000000); })
.duration(5000)
.ease("bounce");
var header = svg.append("text")
.attr("class", "header")
.attr("x", (width / 2))
.attr("y", 30)
.style("text-anchor", "middle")
.style("fill", "#fffff")
.style("font-size","26px")
.text("Doctor Who Earth Time Travel Journeys")
;
svg.append("text")
.attr("x", (width / 2))
.attr("y", 60)
.attr("text-anchor", "middle")
.style("fill", "#aaf")
.style("font-size", "16px")
.text("Each line represents a Time Lord journey (where on Earth they went and when)");
var margin = {top: 50, right: 50, bottom: 50, left: 50}
, width = 1200 - margin.left - margin.right
, height = 850 - margin.top - margin.bottom
, x = d3.scale.linear().range([0, width])
, y = d3.scale.linear().range([0, height])
, color = d3.scale.category20()
, xAxis = d3.svg.axis().scale(x).orient("bottom")
, yAxis = d3.svg.axis().scale(y).orient("left")
, svg = d3.select("#chart").append("svg")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
//tick formatting helper function
function formatDate(value) {
return value.toExponential(0).replace(".", ".")
.replace("e+", "x10^");
}
function draw_lines() {
// Load in data
d3.csv("Doctor Who EARTH Time Travel Journeys_LE.csv", function (error, data) {
// define some color scale
var color = d3.scale.category20b();
// filter for unique actors to build legend
var actors = d3.nest()
.key(function (d) { return d.DWactor; })
.entries(data);
var w = 1000,
h = 500,
m = [60, 120, 40, 80];
var y = d3.scale.linear()
.domain([1950, 2025])
.range([0, h]);
var x = d3.scale.linear()
.domain([-10000000000, 10010000])
.range([0, w])
.clamp(true);
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(x)
.tickFormat(d3.format("g"));
var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
.attr("width", w + m.l + m.r)
.attr("height", h + m.t + m.b)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + m.l + "," + m.t + ")");
d3.csv("Doctor Who EARTH Time Travel Journeys_LE.csv", function (data) { ... });
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Need to write a concise description of a data-visualization example. Need to infer a lot from the data and code. Description should be interesting and engaging. No more than 3 paragraphs.
Also, note this D3 code for this gist was built with d3.v3, and thus the `queue` and `d3.legend` are not included in v5 and above. The original code is not available here, but the files likely render an interactive visualization of data.
Important: the data (csv file) is truncated. You have enough data. If you need, a list of all Doctors is provided.
Here are some known details about the visualization:
Title: Doctor Who Earth Time Travel Journeys
Source: gist
Author: IconicImagery
D3 Version: d3.v3
Framework: d3
Rendering: svg
The data file describes journeys in the TV show, Doctor Who: for each journey, a season, Doctor, episode, and several date/time/place fields.
We need a concise description of the data-visualization example.
A data-viz description usually includes:
- what the graphic shows
- how the data is encoded
- what interaction is included
- what the graphic does well
- what the graphic could be improved
- the overall "takeaway"
Write in plain paragraphs, not as a bulleted list. Target length: about 400-600 words. But before that, write the JSON for the "addendum" data that will be used to display the tooltip when hovering over the circle for "An Unearthly Child". Do not include any other JSON besides the addendum JSON in the code block. Then, after the JSON, provide the description.
File path is the only additional context. Ensure to include the specified CSV data fields in your JSON addendum. Ensure the title and data format exactly match.```json
{
"title": "Doctor Who Earth Time Travel Journeys",
"episode": "An Unearthly Child",
"season": 1,
"actor": "Hartnell",
"generation": "Classic",
"episodeNumber": 1,
"epType": "Regular",
"dateFrom": 1963,
"dateTo": -100000,
"timeJump": -101963,
"place": "England",
"locale": "London"
}
```