This week’s Figure Friday explores sponsorships awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to writers since 1966. I noticed that many writers received sponsorships more than once. The small app visualizes the number of sponsorships granted per year, categorized by whether it was a writer’s first, second, third, or fourth award.
One key observation: repeat sponsorships have become less common over the years.
Example contains:
- External Filtering: Histogram to Grid (AG Grid) When you click on a bar in the histogram and choose a color, you are effectively selecting a year and the number of sponsorships a writer had received at that time. The grid then displays all writers who meet those criteria.
- The grid title updates automatically based on the selection.
- Detail refinement is lacking—sometimes, there just isn’t time for that.
Figure Friday is an initiative from the Dash/Plotly community. Every friday a new dataset is made available with some basic code to show a visual and an explanation of the subject. People are invited to adjust the code and improve the visual or create a small app. The next friday a zoom session takes place where some explain why they made what they made and others can give feedback, all in a constructive and respectful atmosphere. In the thread on the community site people share their visual, code and a demo if possible.