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Some of the visualizations could benefit from using crossfilter. Try incorporating this into some of the visualizations (in particular, the bar-chart ones), and see if/how it will work.

Change load_data.js so that is properly exits once all data has been loaded into mongodb.

Need documentation for:

• Installing dependencies
• Setting up and starting mongodb
• Loading data into mongodb
• Starting the API server
• Maybe some screenshots of the app running?

Put this all in a readme.md file.

The scripts for processing and loading the data from nbaValue into mongodb/mongoose only processes the player and playByPlay tables/entities. We need to have these scripts build up a more structured model of the data, by having separate tables/entities for players, teams, seasons, matchups, gameEvents, etc. These should all be linked together with appropriate use of keys.

This enables more meaningful comparison across charts.

Maybe it'll be easier to compare different players if each of their game trajectories corresponds to a line in a single chart.

I recently discovered this nodejs API for accessing nba.com's stats directly. It's a relatively new project (looks like it was started around august of last year), but also looks very promising. I even exchanged a few emails with the creator, who helped me navigate the API a bit.

(note this is more of a "long term" ticket, because I probably wont have time to do a major back-end refactor before the semester ends)

The API should provide capabilities for getting/adding/removing each of the entity types, as described in issue #1.

It would be nice to use a better algorithm for positioning the nodes of the graph.

Stress majorization is the default solution, and for few nodes (~30-50 or so) there are simple iterative algorithms that do the job well. The paper is here http://www.graphviz.org/Documentation/GKN04.pdf

Some operations, such as fetching/computing the t-SNE plot take a few seconds to complete. Add a loading indicator so that users know somethings is happening.