Scatter Plot World Heritage List
This interactive scatter plot visualizes UNESCO World Heritage Sites from a downloaded dataset, using longitude and latitude for the default axes to reveal Europe’s high concentration of sites. Users can switch axes to explore date inscribed or continent, with jitter applied to mitigate overplotting. Built with D3 v6, it uses `scaleLinear`, `scalePoint`, and `scaleTime` for scaling, `axisLeft` and `axisBottom` for axes, and transitions to animate circle positions and growth. The SVG rendering includes opacity-based color coding by continent.
AI-generated descriptionSource: 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