This was a project I created for the Gainesville Sun — we wanted to look at all the businesses in Gainesville that used "Gator" or "Swamp" in their names (hint: there are MANY) and put together some sort of visualization so readers could take away something interesting from that data.
I wrote some Python code to scrape the FL Department of States fictitious name database for all the businesses in Alachua County whose names begin with "Gator" or "Swamp", along with the date the names were registered and whether or not the listings are still active. I then used javascript's D3 library to produce a hover-interactive beeswarm plot of the findings. This way, readers could get a sense of 1) how long these businesses last and 2) when business owners register a higher number of "Gator" or "Swamp" related names.
We found that the biggest crops of registrations generally occurred when Gator football and basketball teams were the winningest, and I used Adobe Illustrator to add annotations that communicated as much. T