Posted in Visualisation

At the moment I'm playing with D3.js trying to recreate some of the polymetric diagrams pioneered in CodeCrawler. (You can see my progress on that over here.) In the process it occurred to me that it should be relatively trivial, using the same tools, to recreate the Toxicity charts we did years ago. Having an HTML5 version would be quite welcome, too, because the original implementation uses Excel features that only work on Windows.

Well, turns out it wasn't too difficult and the result is available in this Github repository. I like the fact that with HTML we can have much richer tooltips compared to the Excel version. What's even better, though, is that because it is an HTML solution I can inline the fully interactive chart in this post:

At this point I should mention that only "modern" version of Internet Explorer support the required tech, which means that this will not work in IE8 and below. Firefox and WebKit/Blink-based browsers should be fine.

Last but not least, the chart embedded in this page uses the same data file as the chart in the original post. I've even approximated the Excel colour palette we used.

Now what's needed is a tool that produces Toxicity scores for Scala, JavaScript, Ruby, etc.