This demo relates to a very sad and distressing topic.
An issue posted on GitHub posed a unique point of view
Issue #5 Expressions of hope
u/loleg I’m not sure how best to describe this, but what I wish for in an interactive viz like this, is the ability to discover what’s hot and happening “out there”. For example, the home page of gitter.im has more or less live messages from around the world. I wonder if we could show positive tweets and expressions of hope and gratitude for the courage of health workers around the world.
Since these words were posted I have been wondering how to turn a techie chart into something that expresses hope. This was not your your usual feature request. To a certain extent that was how the idea of flamingos and dolphins came in.
But that looked like it could get complicated too easily. Last night, the lightbulb turned on: use a skybox - with messages saved as JPG files.
New version uses the sky box to post six hopeful messages
Zoom out then rotate. Trying to read the messages is a little guessing game.
The text is huge and leaves much white space. This is so you are not totally distracted while looking at the data.
Also: uses a new geoJson so there’s a lot more stats such deaths/population or cases/gdp!