This document discusses each key part of the Tell Me More UI. It will describe flow and key features.
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We bring topic data over from the Python pre-processor vis a json file.
The file begins with a summary section, then has a list of children (one child per topic). Each topic has 0 or more children representing phrases that provide context for the topic.
{"name": "Matthew", // Name of the corpus, shown in the center of the sunburst
"data_date": "2017-05-19", // Date of the data, shown in the center of the sunburst (YYYY-MM-DD)
"run_date": "2017-05-20 13:33", // Date we pulled the data, shown in the center of the sunburst (YYYY-MM-DD)
"children": [{ // Children: The topics shown on the inner ring of our sunburst
"name": "man", // Name: The Topic (visible on the UI slice).
"count": 108, // Count: The number of times this topic appears in the corpus.
"rank": 1, // Rank: a rank order based on the number of texts it appears in
"size": 7, //
"textCount": 25, // how many texts does this topic appear in (e.g., textIDs.length)
"verbatims": ["man", "men"], // alternate ways this topics is mentioned in our texts, used by to highlight
"textIDs": ["936", "944"], // the textIDs where this topic appears (used to determine which texts to show
"children": [ // *** sub-topics: the outer ring of our sunburst ***
// each child has a subset of the attributes that we have for each topic
{"name": "aman", "count": 13, "verbatims": ["a man"],
"textIDs": ["945", "946", "937", "947", "941", "950", "953", "944", "940", "949"], "textCount": 10,
"rank": 1, "size": 10},
{"name": "thisman", "count": 8, "verbatims": ["this man"],
"textIDs": ["937", "955", "941", "954", "940"],
"textCount": 5, "rank": 1, "size": 5},
{"name": "theman", "count": 6, "verbatims": ["the man", "the men"],
"textIDs": ["954", "940", "936"],
"textCount": 3, "rank": 1, "size": 3}]
}]}Three ways to choose a document object: d3.select (or selectAll), document.getElementByID, or document.query... (or ...All). Explain this.