Honeybees vs Temperature - A Geographic D3 Web Visualization

Link to GitHub: https://github.com/alswilli/The-Effects-of-Climate-Change-on-the-U.S.-Honey-Bee-Population

Link to Website: https://alswilli.github.io/The-Effects-of-Climate-Change-on-the-U.S.-Honey-Bee-Population/

Demo:

Summary:

Honeybees v.s Temperature is an interactive Geographic web visualization made using a JavaScript data visualization library called D3. I made this visualization on a 3-person team as a course project for CMPS 165 - Data Programming and Visualizations at UC Santa Cruz from April 2018 - June 2018.

Honey Bees are the most major pollinators in the world, helping pollinate 90% of all wild plants in the United States. However, honey bees are now dying off at a rapid rate due to a gradual increase in our planet’s temperature. Despite their numbers stabilizing in the U.S. within the last 10 years due to increased conservation efforts, the signs are clear that even hotter weather in the coming years will put increased pressure on their colonies. The visualization I built provides and in-depth look at how staggering their decline has been, compared with increasing temperatures throughout the entire United States over the last 40 years.

Some of the technologies/skills used:

• JavaScript

• HTML & CSS

• D3

Some of my major contributions:

• Created two interactive graphs, one being an SVG line chart that compares the temporal data trends in a selected U.S. state, the other being a U.S. Geomap with choropleth which updates the line chart based on the currently clicked state

• Gathered data in CSV format, parsed it by row and appropriately transformed it to be visualized by each type of graph

• Added tooltips, interpolated data and calculated trend lines, which greatly enhanced the impact of the visualization