unemployment-bubble-chart

• This will display the aggregate unemployment data for all US states as a choropleth.
• Used to display effects of COVID-19 on unemployment claims.
• We pull data weekly from https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf and aggregate it.

Build instructions

• Pull down this repo
• For development, make sure that you have an HTTP Server that can serve up index.html
  • example: $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 7800, if you have python SimpleHTTPServer
• Fire up your favorite HTTP server in the root directory
• Fire up index.html - if you use the example above, then it's: http://localhost:7800/

Deploy instructions

• Merge a feature branch or an up to date master into gh-pages and push to gh-pages.

Attributions

This draws inspiration from the following:

• https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/coronavirus-d3-us-map-20200312/
• https://bost.ocks.org/mike/bubble-map/
• https://gist.github.com/bradoyler/5adf1567be59283d3e882035e0371ed1