Data Visualization
Data visualization has become increasingly important to me since starting my career in industry. I started with basic tools like Microsoft Office and Google Docs, but have since graduated to more advanced tools like ggplot in R. However, as I build a finance app for fun, I find that the data visualization landscape in Javascript is vast and confusing.
Initially, I thought about using a pie chart to display amounts by category, but ultimately decided to build my own band chart. Drawing inspiration from a portfolio tutorial on HTML and CSS, I created two elements: a container element that represents 0-100% and a child container element that takes a coded width to correspond to the percentage skill I want to visualize.I found that by reshaping my data into data organized by category, I could display each category as a segment of a band-chart.
This chart is responsive and works at all viewpoints tested. I also decided to only display categories that are 10% or more, with the first three letters of the category, as I found that this displayed the most information with the least amount of clutter