WoW Horde Players Density 2008

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WoW Horde Players Density 2008

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Last edited Nov 12, 2019

Created on Oct 28, 2019

A three-dimensional, interactive map of the World of Warcraft realm of Azeroth visualizes the density of Horde players on December 10, 2008. Colored heatmap overlays on the terrain show player concentrations across various zones, with each zone also represented by a pie chart sprite. The visualization uses Three.js for 3D rendering with WebGL, D3.js for data loading and the gradient legend, and the simpleheat library to generate the heatmap textures on canvas.

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this visualization shows WOWPlaying map in order to visualize the data from Horde Avatar History Dataset. To answer the question of How many Horde Players are connected every single day?, in order to find possible pattern in the playing time. However, to anwser this question it was required to perfom some data manipulation: such as Converting Date and Time Format then to days (Numerical). Finally, the data was that by the Player Id and Time, to obtain the Total Numbers of Players that were connected at which particular hour.

Design using Three.js and D3.js.

MIT Licensed

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