Friday 15 February 2019

Data and tidyverse links

These were useful:

https://rstudio-pubs-static.s3.amazonaws.com/282405_e280f5f0073544d7be417cde893d78d0.html

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6639713/how-do-i-strip-dollar-signs-from-data-escape-special-characters-in-r

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42493381/dplyr-select-columns-by-position-in-nse

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/statistics

https://ourworldindata.org/cancer

https://ourworldindata.org/cancer-death-rates-are-falling-five-year-survival-rates-are-rising

http://dyingforacure.org/blogs/misled-cancer-progress/


Monday 4 February 2019

Revisiting javascript and D3

Ok, so this is a bit of a blast from the past.

There are a couple of Code Club students that are interested in HTML and generally manipulating web content.

I've agreed to have a look at Javascript and try to organise a few lessons.

Revising my old D3 code skills....

Some things to think about:


Code can be run on https://jsfiddle.net
This gives an online play area...
Three windows with HTML, CSS and Javascript
and then a result window.

JQuery Biolerplate can be added.
D3 can be added as a library here:
Currently No_Library but easy to add stuff...


There are some key things to understand:

  • <div></div>
  • var
  • chaining
Some nice simple tutorial...



Probably worth encouraging students to work through both of the HTML projects or at least the one with Javascript...

Revisiting some simple D3 sources: https://www.dashingd3js.com/adding-an-svg-element



Observable might be an interesting tool but probably not right now...
https://beta.observablehq.com/playground


Other Javascript libraries are available:
https://blog.bitsrc.io/11-javascript-charts-and-data-visualization-libraries-for-2018-f01a283a5727

N.B. The trinket for the the Code Club project gives the answer - NOT good!

Other resources: 
  • https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/coderdojo
  • https://bost.ocks.org/mike/bar/
  • https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects?software[]=html-css-javascript
  • CSS Colour picker: https://www.quackit.com/css/css_color_codes.cfm