Media Polarization

by Adam Nekola

HTML

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<div id="container" style="min-width: 310px; height: 400px; margin: 0 auto"></div>

<ul>
    <li>New York Times</li>
    <li>CNN</li>
    <li>Fox</li>
    <li>MSNBC</li>
    <li>ABC</li>
    <li>USAT</li>
    <li>Local</li>
    <li>Limbaugh</li>
</ul>

CSS

li {
    cursor:pointer;
}

JavaScript

$(function () {
    
var media_mountains = [
{
	name: "Nyorker",
	data:[]
}, {	
	name: "Slate",
	data:[]
}, {
	name: "DailyShow",
	data:[]
}, {
	name: "Guardian",
	data:[]
}, {
	name: "AlJA",
	data:[]
}, {
	name: "NPR",
	data:[]
}, {
	name: "Colbert",
	data:[]
}, {
	name: "New York Times",
	data:[1.683398337,1.62924781,1.541411237,1.389379189,1.236605477,1.086742973,1.024882952,0.975736141,0.881829585,0.686079468,0.526133362,0.443331549,0.443708076,0.45379871,0.450767943,0.433687474,0.37236707,0.286727737,0.198373023,0.139056154,0.116735734]
}, {
	name: "BuzzFeed",
	data:[]
}, {
	name: "PBS",
	data:[]
}, {
	name: "BBC",
	data:[]
}, {
	name: "HuffPo",
	data:[]
}, {
	name: "WashPo",
	data:[]
}, {
	name: "Economist",
	data:[]
}, {
	name: "Politico",
	data:[]
}, {
	name: "MSNBC",
	data:[1.673960868,1.69534296,1.750342066,1.861029162,1.979915236,2.059716885,2.074470366,2.045693319,1.986814012,1.810413111,1.613041776,1.446792479,1.383062395,1.331536266,1.236542073,1.130044983,0.969005375,0.78502837,0.541010988,0.360564256,0.265673054]
}, {
	name: "CNN",
	data:[2.111555313,2.230722681,2.422594385,2.621540391,2.734702343,2.8647739,3.06561601,3.338239795,3.500353816,3.384680795,3.091642041,2.772664747,2.486915605,2.203267174,1.850408119,1.553719149,1.227498784,0.961183449,0.676581542,0.496215209,0.405124755]
}, {
	name: "NBC",
	data:[]
}, {
	name: "CBS",
	data:[]
}, {
	name: "Google",
	data:[]
}, {
	name: "Bloomberg",
	data:[]
}, {
	name: "ABC",
	data:[1.382535524,1.465434664,1.596219644,1.782991874,1.982965167,2.260601318,2.516637147,2.737968174,2.827802427,2.816641064,2.71209941,2.581935805,2.357381199,2.068574223,1.721950054,1.517793965,1.363321635,1.22430185,0.933664065,0.65674446,0.492436332]
}, {
	name: "USAT",
	data:[0.592344646,0.625006079,0.650041614,0.67961669,0.722039241,0.795627395,0.838139063,0.83005014,0.801607099,0.759753823,0.71323728,0.663697163,0.632921797,0.628427466,0.622020291,0.594460431,0.524436988,0.44174081,0.352384614,0.284947937,0.247499434]
},...