http://daily-show.herokuapp.com/

A visual representation of data about the guests of Jon Stewart in The Daily Show. The data is represented in the form of interactive charts

• Pie chart - showing the different occupation groups
• Row charts - one row chart to show the top ten occupations of the guests, another row chart to show the top ten guests
• Line chart - showing how the number of guests have changed over the years
• Series chart - showing how the 3 top occupation groups have changed over the years. The only chart on the website which is not interacting with the others charts.
• Data table - will display the relevant data by selecting a guest or a show

• MongoDB: an open-source database using document-orientated data model

  • We use MongoDB to convert and present our data in JSON format

• Flask: a Python based microframework

  • We use Flask to serve our data from the server to our web based interface

• Bootstrap: a HTML, CSS and JS framework for building responsive, mobile-first websites

  • We use bootstrap to make our site responsive

• D3.js: a JavaScript library for manipulating data

  • We use D3.js to render our interactive charts and graphs

• Dc.js: a JavaScript library for data visualization

  • We use Dc.js to plot the charts

• Crossfilter.js: a JavaScript library for manipulating data

• Queue.js: an asynchronous helper library for JavaScript

My project used the database daily-show-guests presented by FiveThirtyEight at https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. I made the following changes to the database to make my charts as accurate as possible

• corrected minor typographical errors, e.g. extra apostrophe, extra white space, spelling mistakes etc.
• changed rows that contained 2 or more guests to rows containing only a single guest e.g. "Adam Sandler and Chris Rock" occured in two rows under the Guest column, indicating that the specific show featured these two guests. I modified these two rows to include "Adam Sandler" and "Chris Rock" separately on each row
• some guests' names included a title in a few instances, while no title in others - I removed the title, so my charts can show more accurate information
• some guests' names included extra information e.g. "David Cross (show hosted by Stephen Colbert)" - removed the extra information