I made it to the front page of Reddit!
Last month I started a data visualization blog, with plans to build an audience and perhaps publish an ebook some day. To build my audience I've been posting once a week or so, mainly on r/dataisbeautiful. Today I posted a 30 second animation of last week's stock market volatility done in Javascript and D3, and it really took off (20,000 upvotes in ~4 hours):
One thing I've learned is that creating content is a lot like making lottery tickets. I had posted a similar visualization a couple weeks ago and it garnered some attention in other communities, but much less on r/dataisbeautiful. You really need to be persistent in order to eventually see good timing, luck and quality content all aligning at once.
My data viz blog:
https://www.chartfleau.com
Congrats!
Not sure if you're wanting / interested in feedback but I spotted that your homepage is missing a title tag so it just shows the url in the address bar.
Thanks will fix!
more like 47k+ right now! well done; you chose a niche where you can produce many visually engaging content
Nothing to add to this. Just gotta say that animation was awesome. Looks like a living blob :)
Congrats !!! the graph is indeed really beautiful 😃
"One thing I've learned is that creating content is a lot like making lottery tickets." - I feel this for sure, haha.
Nice one:) well deserved.
I saw your visualization there. I wanted to ask what did you use but now I got the answer.
Great stuff! I just checked out several visualizations on your blog and bookmarked a couple that I think my stock-trading friends will find interesting. It would be great if you added <title> tags to your site, as that determines the default label of each bookmark. Looking forward to more visualizations!
Thanks will do.
This is insane. Keep your Google Analytics / other analytics dashboard open and enjoy the traffic. :)
Congratulations!! :)
wow, really nice animation! I love it
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