Block-a-Day #10. In this Gapminder recreation, continents can be exploded into their constituent countries with a paintball-splatter-like effect.
Data Sources: Gapminder.
What I Learned: I’ve wanted to build something with this technique ever since I saw Nadieh Bremer’s demonstrations of it. My addition is to create a separate filter definition for each continent, enabling them to be individually transitioned. For more details, check out her original blog post and follow-up.
What I’d Do With More Time: The explosions have to wait until the next year tick. I’d like to be able to explode them immediately, but I’m not aware of a way to do this with d3.transition alone, so it would probably require a custom animation loop.
Just what it sounds like. For fifteen days, I will make a D3.js v4 block every single day. Rules: