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Fork of Scatter Plot World Heritage List

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Ggrigoriu-stefan-iulian
Last edited May 2, 2023
Created on May 2, 2023

This visualization plots UNESCO World Heritage Sites as colored dots, with each dot representing a heritage element and its color indicating the continent. The scatterplot maps longitude and latitude coordinates, revealing that Europe contains a high concentration of sites. Users can switch axes between quantitative variables (longitude, latitude, date inscribed) and categorical variables (continent) using dropdown menus built with a custom D3 `menu` module. The SVG rendering uses D3 scales, axes, and transitions with jittered positioning to reduce overplotting, with data sourced from the UNESCO dataset.

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Source: Unesco Dataset.

I downloaded a dataset with the list of Natural and Cultural Heritage Sites of around the world. The first 'view' is a scatterplot/map because the x-axis is longitude and the y-axis latitude (hoping to learn how to make a map soon).

  • The first insight from this view is that Europe (yellow dots) concentrates a lot of heritage sites.
  • When you go to the second view (date on x-axis and continent on y-axis) you can see that Oceania and Africa are the Continents with fewer heritage sites, although there is a lot of overplotting so you can't really see how Europe is the number 1 continent (I added a little of jitter to avoid that, but it was not enought).

Things I didn't have the time to learn, but will like to add in the future:

  • Add tooltips
  • Limit the options for X & Y
  • Add axis titles
MIT Licensed

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