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About: This is my first interactive map. The purpose of this project was to learn JavaScript, jQuery and Leaflet to create an interactive map with a dataset that expressed an attribute that changed over time. I am a huge Bruce Springsteen fan, so I chose to map all of his concerts from his major US and Canadian tours. Concerts are aggregated by state. You can cycle through the decades to see how the areas visited by the Boss changed throughout the years, or you can view the geographic pattern of an individual tour by either selecting it from the dropdown menu or clicking on the tour in the panel. Hovering over the proportional symbols shows you the total concerts in that state for the temporal bin you have chosen.
Process: There are massive amounts of crowdsourced data on Springsteen tours and shows. Unfortunately, none of it is in a GIS-ready format, so I had to manually enter each concert to create a database. After choosing a set of tiles, the majority of the work was struggling through my first project using JavaScript, jQuery and CSS.
Completed March 2016