About this site
Welcome to the site of SocViz, a project created as part of the Social Data & Visualization course taught at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
The site currently features two investigations: - An investigation into crime activities across various police districts in San Francisco. - An investigation into forecast data for Melbourne, Australia.
Our aim is to present our findings in a concise and engaging manner through appealing visuals and interactive plots.
The site’s design is built on a custom implementation that takes inspiration from Edward Tufte’s principles and incorporates elements from the Neat CSS framework.
We are delighted to have you here and hope that you not only enjoy your time on the site but also learn something new as you delve deeper into our content.
Static site generation and code execution
This site is generated using Quarto due to its appealing features for scientific and technical publications.
Quarto provides an extension to the Markdown formatting language through its .qmd file format, also known as Quarto documents. The Quarto engine can execute code blocks within these documents using the Python interpreter, preferably in a self-contained virtual environment.
These documents are processed by Haskell Pandoc to read and export them into various file formats, such as HTML. The resulting HTML is then presented as a static site, which we have published on GitHub Pages.