This was a FUN Viz to work on.I decided to go w/ Are We Alone In The Universe b/c there is a lot of information on Wikipedia (the required data source) about planets discovered by the Kepler Spacecraft. I got the current list of planets from the following link. It was easy to copy/paste this data into a spreadsheet.... but I wanted additional data that could only be found by clicking on the Planet link. That's where Python came in handy. Python allowed me to quickly scrape data from 548 webpages in just a few minutes. Here's the code and what it does. When I start I Viz I tend to throw in EVERYTHING; then start chip chip chipping away.For the Size of Planets Grouped, I wanted the Reference Planet on the top of each column... this required the creation of some calculated fields. Planet Size Grouping Order is a simple IF statement that put each planet into a numbered group based on size. I used this for my ordering (Earth Size first, then Super Earth Size, Etc.)
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I love Scatter Plots. They give a lot of information and are just plan fun. I wanted to show how you can use images on a scatter plot graph to create an awesome Viz. |
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