# About d3 moving bubble chart **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [September 11, 2023, 6:55pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/about-d3-moving-bubble-chart/8279 "2023-09-11T18:55:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![taivan\_reza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@taivan\_reza](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/taivan_reza)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 6:55pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/about-d3-moving-bubble-chart/8279/1 "2023-09-11T18:55:03Z")
Hello, wonderful community! New member here 🙋‍♂️ I learned about d3 moving bubble charts a while ago. Then, I found a LinkedIn post regarding that where a guy made a visualization about Australia’s 24H activity. The dataset has multiple worksheets, and I am really puzzled. If I want to make such a visualization on “UK people activity in 24H time span”, how do I arrange my CSV file? What columns would it contain? Would it be a single worksheet? I am really new in the data science field, and trying to learn kinds of stuff. Any answer would really make me happy : ) ![Screenshot (56)](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/observablehq/original/2X/d/de529f661ed0d670ddfbc1aefe19137b5302610a.png) ---
**Author:** ![Fil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/fil/32/207_2.png) [@Fil](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/Fil)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2023, 6:09am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/about-d3-moving-bubble-chart/8279/2 "2023-09-18T06:09:14Z")
Looks like an exciting project! Can you share a link or reference to the original visualisation? It’s hard to guess from a screenshot. ---
**Author:** ![taivan\_reza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@taivan\_reza](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/taivan_reza)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2023, 8:22am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/about-d3-moving-bubble-chart/8279/3 "2023-09-25T08:22:36Z")
Heyy you can follow the link below to get an idea [https://d3blocks.github.io/d3blocks/pages/html/MovingBubbles.html](https://d3blocks.github.io/d3blocks/pages/html/MovingBubbles.html) ---
**Author:** ![taivan\_reza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@taivan\_reza](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/taivan_reza)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2023, 6:55pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/about-d3-moving-bubble-chart/8279/4 "2023-09-26T18:55:36Z")
heyy let me know what you think of it. Would really appreciate a response : ) ---
**Author:** ![Fil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/fil/32/207_2.png) [@Fil](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/Fil)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/about-d3-moving-bubble-chart/8279/5 "2023-09-26T19:42:13Z")
I feel that this looks like a difficult project for a start. The “moving bubbles” page creates random activity logs, which are not very useful as a template for real data. From whatever data you have about each person represented, you need to have a function that tells you, based on the current value of the “time” variable, what their activity is. I can try and help if you already have a dataset—I’ve looked around and didn’t find any that would correspond to what’s shown here. ---
**Author:** ![taivan\_reza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@taivan\_reza](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/taivan_reza)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 5:26am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/about-d3-moving-bubble-chart/8279/6 "2023-09-27T05:26:35Z")
I don’t have a dataset yet…and this is where I am stuck for quite a long time. However, I got a vague idea as someone on LinkedIn did a project on this -[Sign Up | LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7075302025554501632?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) He mentioned that he took the dataset from ABS - [How Australians Use Their Time, 2020-21 financial year | Australian Bureau of Statistics](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/people-and-communities/how-australians-use-their-time/latest-release) For the visualization I mentioned above, one must have the dataset that represents the time distribution of an activity in each hour throughout the 24 hours. I am baffled about how that guy did this as the dataset he used doesn’t provide any clear information about the time distribution of the activity he showed in his project.