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NASCAR Track Map

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RRobert Johnson
Last edited Nov 21, 2021
Created on Oct 12, 2021

This map shows the locations of 27 NASCAR tracks that hosted races between 1975 and 2003. Each circle marks a track, colored by a categorical scale, and hovering reveals the track’s name, type, length, status, and driver with the most wins. The visualization uses Vega-Lite and vega-lite-api to layer an Albers USA projection of U.S. states with a circle mark layer, and includes a dropdown menu for filtering by track name. Data is loaded from a CSV via d3.csv.

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A map showing the locations of the 27 tracks NASCAR ran races on from 1975 to 2003. The tooltip displays information such as the name of the track, its type, its length, whether or not it is active, and which driver has the most wins there. The data used in this visualization is derived from a dataset which contains information on every NASCAR race run from 1975 to 2003.

Goal: Once this viz is added to the dahsboard, I would like to highlight the selected track when the legend is clicked on.

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