{"id":88,"date":"2014-10-10T19:56:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T19:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/brennanpincardiff\/?p=88"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:08:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:08:21","slug":"learning-javascript-and-d3-js-to-produce-electives-world-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/brennanpincardiff\/learning-javascript-and-d3-js-to-produce-electives-world-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning javascript and D3.js to produce Electives World 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year I decided that I would work towards improving my data analysis and visualisation skills. I bought a book entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/book.flowingdata.com\/\">Visualise This<\/a>\u00a0which proved a very interesting read. There were practical exercise in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.r-project.org\/\">R, a statistics programming tool<\/a>. There was also some information about generating interactive graphics for the internet &#8211; exactly what I wanted to do. I learned a lot from this book. It didn&#8217;t mention the <a href=\"http:\/\/d3js.org\/\">D3.js<\/a> directly but an earlier product developed by the same person &#8211; the inspiring <a href=\"http:\/\/bost.ocks.org\/mike\/\">Mike Bostock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of my efforts and a request from <a href=\"http:\/\/medicine.cf.ac.uk\/person\/dr-samantha-jayne-hibbitts\/\">Dr Sam Hibbitts<\/a>, we launched last week Electives World 2014, a selection of web pages including interactive world map, interactive graphs, advice and stories from a Cardiff University Medical Student survey. The pages are available <a href=\"https:\/\/learningcentral.cf.ac.uk\/bbcswebdav\/users\/wmdpb\/Electives2014\/index.html\">here through Learning Central<\/a>. For some reason, it doesn&#8217;t always work so there is a slightly earlier version available <a href=\"http:\/\/science2therapy.com\/Electives2014\/index.html\">here<\/a>. For security reasons, I can&#8217;t install it into this blog so here is a static picture instead.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_89\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/brennanpincardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/256\/2014\/10\/Screenshot-2014-10-10-20.52.08.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/brennanpincardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/256\/2014\/10\/Screenshot-2014-10-10-20.52.08-300x222.png\" alt=\"A selection of places Cardiff Medical Students go on Elective. \" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/brennanpincardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/256\/2014\/10\/Screenshot-2014-10-10-20.52.08-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/brennanpincardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/256\/2014\/10\/Screenshot-2014-10-10-20.52.08-1024x759.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/brennanpincardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/256\/2014\/10\/Screenshot-2014-10-10-20.52.08-624x462.png 624w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/brennanpincardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/256\/2014\/10\/Screenshot-2014-10-10-20.52.08.png 1046w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A selection of places Cardiff Medical Students go on Elective.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this year I decided that I would work towards improving my data analysis and visualisation skills. 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