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kevinschaul / binify

A command-line tool to better visualize crowded dot density maps.
MIT License
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Option to ignore zero-count hexagons? #20

Closed wilson428 closed 11 years ago

wilson428 commented 11 years ago

I've been playing with binify for some data I gathered by geocoding about 30,000 addresses. I needed a --num-across value of about 200 to get the granularity I wanted, which created a huge .shp file. To get it in shape for graphing with d3, I converted to GeoJSON and wrote a short python script to remove all polygons where COUNT=0. After then converting to TopoJSON it got down to a very manageable 169KB.

I thought this might make for a useful flag to the command line tool.

Would also be happy to publish this example as a gist or elsewhere. The final product looks great.

kevinschaul commented 11 years ago

Ah, yes. This would be very useful. Thanks for the suggestion.

I'd love to see what you've done. If you want to host it somewhere, I could point to it from an "In the wild" section of the readme.

wilson428 commented 11 years ago

Great! I'll let you know when I post it.

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Kevin Schaul notifications@github.comwrote:

Ah, yes. This would be very useful. Thanks for the suggestion.

I'd love to see what you've done. If you want to host it somewhere, I could point to it from an "In the wild" section of the readme.

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kevinschaul commented 11 years ago

Let me know if this doesn't do what you hoped it would.

wilson428 commented 11 years ago

Works like a charm, thanks! Will upload my example tonight.