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Julia -- that looks just like what I think I need! That's fantastic. I'll have to dig deeper to find out for sure, but it looks like they've developed the kind of tool I was thinking of. Thanks! Ken -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Julia Bauder Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 5:52 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] datavis question: filtering data table by map clicks What about DataMaps? http://datamaps.github.io/ You'd need to do a tiny bit of custom coding in popupTemplate, but it looks like it really would be just a tiny bit? Julia ********************************************* Julia Bauder Social Studies and Data Services Librarian Grinnell College Libraries 1111 Sixth Ave. Grinnell, IA 50112 641-269-4431 On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 4:16 PM, Ken Irwin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thanks Christina -- > > An image-map like this is an option, but a bit of a painstaking one. > For something that needs to operate on a country-by-country basis (as > opposed to continent-sized groups as on Pangaea), but shape-creation > could get a bit cumbersome. I'm hoping there's a service that might do > a good job of handling the heavy-lifting to turn a text list with > associated countries into a slick-and-easy filterable list. > > After banging on Tableau for a while, and with some help from their > support community, I've been able to devise something like what I want > (albiet with Tableau's built-in limitations in terms of presentation): > https://public.tableau.com/profile/ken.irwin#!/vizhome/ > GraphicTravelogue/Dashboard1 > As a proof-of-concept, I took a bibliography of graphic travel > narratives from various countries and put them into this viz. It's not > perfect, but it's a start. > > Any other ideas out there would be very welcome as well. > > Thanks > Ken > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Pikas, Christina K. > Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 7:41 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] datavis question: filtering data table by map > clicks > > https://www.pangaea.de/ has that and I think all their code is open? > I think you can either click on a country or draw a bounding box. > On the first page you don't get very granular, but on the results from > that you can get extremely detailed. > > Christina > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Ken Irwin > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 8:06 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [CODE4LIB] datavis question: filtering data table by map > clicks > > Hi folks, > > I'm looking for the right tool for the job. I'm helping a faculty > member who wants an interactive bibliography: click on the map and get > all of the bib entries that pertain to that country. It would be like > the visual equivalent of this common way of filtering text with jQuery: > https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_filter_lists.asp > > I'm imagining some thing that looks a bit like this, with the country > highlighted and the bib details below: > > [cid:[log in to unmask]] > > This screenshot cobbles together a couple of views I was able to put > together in Tableau, and I imagine that Tableau might be able to > support the kind of application we're going for. But maybe a different > datavis tool would do it easier, better, etc. > > Does anyone know of a tool that would do this sort of > filter-by-map-click function? Anyone know what that kind of function > might be called? It seems like it would be super-cool, but my Google-fu has failed me thus far. > > So far, I can get Tableau to show me the bib details for a single > entry when there's only one entry per country, or it will show me (as > seen > above) the number of entries for a country with more numerous entries, > then it takes a few clicks to get to the bib details. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks > Ken >