Presenting the d3.loom chart

Tue, 01 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

In this blog I’d like to “formally” introduce and explain a new (and my first) d3 plugin to create a chart that I’ve started calling the loom. Although I was very much inclined to also call it the butterfly or labrys. However, I actually needed two words for this plugin, so loom + strings made more sense overall (thanks to Mike Bostock who provided the name).

The Words in the Lord of the Rings

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 13:07:30 +0000

In more than 11 hours of the Lord of the Rings trilogy all characters combined speak approximately 32,000 words. The 9 members of the Fellowship alone take up about 17,000 of these words, a bit more than half. In this visualization you can find out how many words a member has spoken at each different location throughout the trilogy. Did you realize how much Sam truly spoke. Or that Legolas said even less than Boromir!

Lord of the Rings on Visual Cinnamon

Presenting the d3.loom chart

The Words in the Lord of the Rings