Sasaki's Understanding Homelessness is a really impressive information visualization. What makes it thus impressive is the agency it picks out in addition to explains or thus of the of import stories well-nigh homelessness inwards the USA hidden inwards the data. One of the primary ways that it explores in addition to explains the information is through the hold out of animated transitions betwixt dissimilar types of information visualization. For example, if yous switch betwixt the 'map' in addition to 'table' visualizations thus the dots (each ane representing v homeless people) genuinely wing off the map in addition to rearrange themselves into a table.
To create these animated information transitions Sasaki developed their ain information visualization library called Continuity. At the instant Sasaki isn't providing much back upwards for using Continuity merely they practise nation that they are "are working to document in addition to unloose to a greater extent than components in addition to examples" of Continuity.
Before these components in addition to documentation are released yous tin come across Continuity inwards activity on the Understanding Homelessness map in addition to on Imagine Boston. The Imagine Boston map visualizes a make of demographic, carry in addition to other information well-nigh Boston. It uses the Continuity information visualization library to explore in addition to visualize this data. As alongside the Understanding Homelessness map animated transitions betwixt dissimilar types of visualizations are used to attention explicate or thus of the stories revealed past times the Boston data. Particularly impressive is the racial population information in addition to how yous tin click on the dissimilar races inwards the racial breakdown tabular array to add together that specific demographic to the interactive map.
