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Comment by elorant | Hacker News Reader

The usability of the page is pathetic. First, the fonts are too small. If you enlarge then you can't scroll horizontally to see the rest of the titles because the lines get in the way. Didn't anyone think to make the graph clickable instead of just mouse-over. And on top of everything we have the heading of the site that floats and gets in the way. Fucking hell. Someone saw the graph and said, wow let's just use it because it looks awesome. Sure it looks awesome if you have a couple dozen labels, not a gazillion of them

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> Someone saw the graph and said, wow let's just use it because it looks awesome.

Close to what happened! The magazine graphic (https://twitter.com/adamrpearce/status/697844614754123776) was finished before I started on the web version, and I just had a couple of days to make something that could go online. I initially tried a more sort of 538/scatterplot/analysis approach, but wasn't making a ton of progress. I started just sketching out different ways of putting all 500 jobs on the screen at once. The grid of jobs with lines showing up on mouseover was the most fun to play with and being pushed to finish before valentines day, I went with it.

Sorry it was hard to use!

I thought it was creative, entertaining and different than the usual boring charts. It's not perfect but I still liked it!

I think it's really cool. Saved for later to pick apart the d3 code.

How do they sleep at night!? /s

They (Designers) marry Miscellaneous Managers.

Drunk and with good company.

Worts part: the search implementation is very poor.

Typing "Teacher" will give you the following options Postsecondary Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Other Teachers and Instructors, Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers.

However it will not give you Elementary and Middle School Teachers.

I like the graph and small box for typing a filter. Works great for me.

On my mac using Chrome, if I pinch zoom I can see the text and scroll around for what I want, then pinch zoom out and don't move the pointer.

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