Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

Re:Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors by elorant on Thursday February 11, 2016 @01:20PM (#11081857)

The usability of the page is pathetic. First, the fonts are too small. If you enlarge then you can't scroll horizontally to see the rest of the titles because the lines get in the way. Didn't anyone think to make the graph clickable instead of just mouse-over. And on top of everything we have the heading of the site that floats and gets in the way. Fucking hell. Someone saw the graph and said, wow let's just use it because it looks awesome. Sure it looks awesome if you have a couple dozen labels, not a gazillion of them

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Re:Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors by 1wheel on Thursday February 11, 2016 @02:49PM (#11082669)

> Someone saw the graph and said, wow let's just use it because it looks awesome.

Close to what happened! The magazine graphic (https://twitter.com/adamrpearce/status/697844614754123776) was finished before I started on the web version, and I just had a couple of days to make something that could go online. I initially tried a more sort of 538/scatterplot/analysis approach, but wasn't making a ton of progress. I started just sketching out different ways of putting all 500 jobs on the screen at once. The grid of jobs with lines showing up on mouseover was the most fun to play with and being pushed to finish before valentines day, I went with it.

Sorry it was hard to use!

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Re:Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors by fensterblick on Thursday February 11, 2016 @02:59PM (#11082741)

I thought it was creative, entertaining and different than the usual boring charts. It's not perfect but I still liked it!

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Re:Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors by grwgreg on Thursday February 11, 2016 @04:45PM (#11083525)

I think it's really cool. Saved for later to pick apart the d3 code.

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Re:Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors by mikejholly on Thursday February 11, 2016 @02:02PM (#11082250)

How do they sleep at night!? /s

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Re:Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors by js8 on Thursday February 11, 2016 @02:41PM (#11082596)

They (Designers) marry Miscellaneous Managers.

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Re:Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors by elorant on Thursday February 11, 2016 @02:13PM (#11082350)

Drunk and with good company.

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Re:Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors by nmc on Thursday February 11, 2016 @02:24PM (#11082459)

Worts part: the search implementation is very poor.

Typing "Teacher" will give you the following options Postsecondary Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Other Teachers and Instructors, Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers.

However it will not give you Elementary and Middle School Teachers.

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Re:Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors by humbleMouse on Thursday February 11, 2016 @01:34PM (#11081968)

I like the graph and small box for typing a filter. Works great for me.

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Re:Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors by suneilp on Thursday February 11, 2016 @01:40PM (#11082026)

On my mac using Chrome, if I pinch zoom I can see the text and scroll around for what I want, then pinch zoom out and don't move the pointer.

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