Are there any example notebooks I can look at where the plot area can be scrolled and the axes are fixed but scrolling in their respective directions? I made this ridiculous matrix but what I’d rather have is a scrollable view into it, that’s not an eyechart. I know all things are possible with D3 but being pressed for time and short on skills I’d prefer an example I can read and learn from.
Warning: big and slow notebook is a work in progress.
Hi jwb! I’m not aware of techniques to do this directly in Plot, though you could potentially create a similar workflow by having inputs to select a subset of the data (e.g. pick a few stations of interest), then only plot those stations.
If you want to try some D3 techniques, here’s an example of a zoomable scatterplot (though you would have to recreate the scale and marks you have in your cell matrix)
Since your dataset is on the larger side, I might also recommend trying Observable Framework, which would allow you to aggregate the data a bit more before visualizing it in the client. In the Framework docs there’s an example that uses Mosaic vgplot to show a geospatial pickup / drop off dataset that supports brushing, so you can discover the relationships between locations through interactions, rather than trying to show the entire adjacency matrix at once.
Perfect. That was exactly the example I needed.