omarkawach / Info-Viz

Project built with Nivo, React, and Leaflet for an Information Visualization course at the University of Victoria.

Little Free Library Demographics Explorer

Authors: Donovan Aikman and Omar Kawach

Description: Project for CSC411 - Information Visualization at the University of Victoria

Link One: https://omarkawach.github.io/Info-Viz/

Link Two: http://aikman.ca/crd-lfl/

Purpose

Little free libraries have been growing in popularity over the years. Despite the fact that communities gain from literacy, landmarks, art, culture, and sharing, little research has been done to comprehend LFLs and how / why / where they pop up. Little Free Library Demographics Explorer aims to use demographic information coupled with LFL location data to gather new insights.

Features

• Nivo chart with dropdown menus
  • Use the dropdown to visualize different datasets
• Leaflet map with one-way interactivity and info panel
  • Click a feature on the map to highlight it in the chart and show more details in the info panel

Getting Started

Install NodeJS locally and then run npm install to get all necessary modules. Then, run npm start to see the project running locally. Use npm run deploy to ship the project to GitHub Pages.

TODO

Refactor and document

Data Sources

British Columbia Census Profile, 2016 Census - Statistics Canada

Little Free Libraries - Greater Victoria Placemaking Network

Tools

React Leaflet

React Select

React

Nivo

NodeJS

GeoPandas

GitHub Pages