A sunburst representation of the variety of 2A concentrations at MIT. See it here
Requires d3 for the visualization, poshytip for the tooltips, and jQuery for some odds and ends.
Excel to CSV to python (where class numbers are confirmed by scraping MIT's online course catalog) to JSON to d3.js
- Chopping the .xlsx into the .csv
- sorting the .csv by department popularity > class popularity
- cleanup and comment the css
- make it a meteor app, and show what the last twentyorso people moused over / searched
- should work well with animations?
there's the potential for extending it to search by people (in particular tracks, who are taking a particular course, etc.) for the tracks, it's currently sorta misleading as to what it's representing. I'm saying who belong to a given track, while those lokoing for classes are more interested in the above. Hmm.