neilhawkins

Why a bar chart for 800 rows of data will end in tears and repetitive strain injury.

Data is political donations above £7500 made to Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties in the United Kingdom between May 2010 and August 2013.

	Kt
	Bt
	Bart
	Esq
	MNM
	VC
	GC
	KG
	LG
	KT

	Mr
	Mrs
	Master
	Miss
	Ms
	Mx
	Dr
	Admiral
	Air Comm
	Ambassador

	[
	{
	"op": "core/text-transform",
	"engineConfig": {
	"facets": [],
	"mode": "row-based"
	},
	"columnName": "Value",
	"expression": "grel:value.replace(/[,£]/,'').toNumber()",
	"onError": "keep-original",

	var INCR = 10; // Number of messages per page
	var SENT_URL = '//www.linkedin.com/inbox/sent?startRow=';
	var loMessageLinks = []; // Main array for all contacts

	var fetchMessages = function(i, cb) {

	console.log('Fetching message page #' + (i+1));
	$.get(SENT_URL + (i*INCR), function(data){
	var $dom = $(data);

	var fs = require("fs");

	function main() {
	fs.readdir("./node_modules", function (err, dirs) {
	if (err) {
	console.log(err);
	return;
	}
	dirs.forEach(function(dir){
	if (dir.indexOf(".") !== 0) {

	var casper = require("casper").create({
	verbose: true,
	loglevel: "debug"
	});
	var response = [], url, site, viewportWidth = 1280, viewportHeight = 1024;
	var captureSize = {top: 0, left: 0, width: viewportWidth, height: viewportHeight};

	// to get screenshot folder name from url
	var re = /url=(\w+)\./;