Behind the Scenes: The NYT Facebook IPO Graphic

http://chartsnthings.tumblr.com/post/23348191031/amanda-cox-and-countrymen-chart-the-facebook-i-p-o/

by jashkenas • 14 years ago

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teoruiz• 14 years ago

What's the software used to actually generate the interactive charts? I found it somehow amazing they're not Flash.

I can see a reference in the HTML source code to something called "Stencil".

carbocation• 14 years ago

Per jashkenas, they started with d3/svg, but moved to canvas. I'm guessing this is largely bespoke.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3988556

alphaoverlord• 14 years ago

Looks like protovis, unless they are using different tools for each graphic. http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/pack.html

dylanmcd2• 14 years ago

It's d3, http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/js/newsgraphics/2012/0...

knowtheory• 14 years ago

The new app was originally written with d3 but, by the time of deployment d3 was responsible only for scaling the axes, and the rest of the graphic was built largely around custom code written around canvas elements.

Behind the Scenes: The NYT Facebook IPO Graphic

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