FYI - I saw some weird googlesite errors that might be related to the (moderate) load it's getting at the moment.
The visualization is also on this googledrive site
Visualizing World Birth and Death Rates
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#12It would be nice if the color of each country would change over time representing the net change in population.
But very cool as is, nice work!
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#13Nice. Is muddy Red/Green the best choice of dot colours for a colour blind person? I'm not colour blind myself, so I can't tell, but I know people that are, and small areas of low saturation red/green are exactly the things that cause trouble for them. (Line graphs with red and green lines against a light background are also another classic.)
I couldn't tell that the dots were colored differently at all.
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#14Service unavailable.
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#15503.
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#16Nice. Is muddy Red/Green the best choice of dot colours for a colour blind person? I'm not colour blind myself, so I can't tell, but I know people that are, and small areas of low saturation red/green are exactly the things that cause trouble for them. (Line graphs with red and green lines against a light background are also another classic.)
Heh, thanks. I am red/green blind and didn't realize the dots were color-coded. I also would not have been able to tell you the color of any dot -- though I still can't, but now I have a 50% chance :)
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#17@femto - that's a good point. That occurred to me, but for the moment I decided to stick with the red/green that was already used for the previous visualization. Well sort of, as I actually use d3.rgb.darker on the actual colors because I wasn't satisfied with the original ones, as they looked too light. Even for red/green, I think there's a lot of room for improvement here to make them stand out more. I'm not sure o…
Some suggestions:
- "O" for birth, "X" (or "+"?) for death
- Filled circle for birth, non-filled circle for death
- Expanding filled circle for birth, Shrinking filled circle for death (might not work well with low fps)
If you decide to go with color change, here's some combinations that I (red/green blind) have trouble with:
- dark red/dark green/brown
- purple/violet/pink/grey
- dark red/dark purple/dark violet
- blue/violet/purple
- yellow/warm green/light brown
- yellow/orange
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#18503.
@edem
It's also at these two places
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#19The longer I stare at this the more insignificant it makes me feel...
On the bright side, if you are into startups, look at all those new people coming into the world who need things!
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#20@phorese - thanks for the suggestions - great color info
For those who might be interested, I have updated things so that * colors are a little brighter (not right yet, but maybe better for now) * the list is always prepended to, not appended this immediately helps convey the "velocity"; if you mouseover an element in the list, it should pause the insertions (although the counters keep going); when you mouse out, all the "backed up" events slide down. Might be some quirks on browsers with that, but not using anything fancy... this has not been tweaked to work well on mobile browsers yet either.
* there is an option to have it append to the list instead of prepend. Not sure this is needed at all, now that I think about it
There might be 503's sometimes. I don't think it's a quota issue, but just that googledrive can do that under load. I think http code 403 would mean a quota issue. Could be wrong, though. I removed an unnecessary 1MB(!) download that might help.