Designing a D3.js visualization with data scraping

Creating a meaningful and useful visualisations is not a easy task. It is just not a simple matter of knowing how to use D3.js and go for it, but a multidisciplinar effort with plenty of research and experimentation.

This month we will count with Alvaro Santamaria who will share his experience developing Spain's parlament representatives salaries data visualisation for El Confidencial newspaper ( https://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2015-02-27/el-sueldo-de-todos-los-diputados-del-congreso-en-un-grafico_717906/ )

These will be the main points of the talk:

• Data visualisation app demo
• Project context, process and multidisciplinar team
• Building the visualisation with D3.js

• Intro toD3.js
• Code highlights of the most relevant of the app.

• Data mining.

• Mining parlament representatives salary process.
• Scraping de html with python to obtain congress coordinates.

• Lessons learned

• Open source APIs.

• Conclusion and advice on building project with social impact.
• Questions & Answers.

Thanks to ITRS who is lending us their brand new offices the talk will happen in a really convenient location. A few steps from Maria Zambrano central train and bus station.

As always there will be free beer and plenty of time for networking. Since this time we are so close to the center we might be going to get something to eat and continue networking.