Blockbuilder was an in-browser code editor that expanded into a data visualization search engine that hosted rich dataset and visualisation of over 40,000 examples.They were indexed by the project over 5 years. Thanks to Ian for sharing the details of the files and the associated json stored in cloud over thisnotebook at observablehq
The visualisation with D3 has history of 10 years, and before that it was Protovis. What we see today is observablehq. Observablehq is an awesome tool. For new learners of visualisation like us, who intend to understand what observable is doing behind the scenes. I wanted to see the examples that Curran and Bostock had created before Observablehq. These blocks were purely interacting with the html document elements, and Javascript used was simple and straightforward
Nope, I had browsed the blocks at bl.ocks.org and learnt about the various introductory tutorial Bostock had created. After that I came across the following files that has all the blocks that were created by various industry veterans for the past 10 years
Play with it. The files are having live data inside it which can be populated on to the html page using Jquery, Javascript and D3. I have populated some parts of the data below. Think about some interesting ways to populate the data in the html page. Or use the Ian's notebook as starting point and do some different analysis. Then port that analysis to regular html page.