Top 10 National Park Visitor Count

National Parks are invaluable assets to the US Government for their reliable source and income, and analyzing tourism plays an important role in upholding that structure by giving insight so that the Department of the Interior can determine where to divert resources to.

Hover over a park name to get more information, and click on it to make the data for visitors appear on the line graph on the right.

Created by: Curtis Lee and Mengguang Zou in collaboration with Ryan Brounley, Suresh Lodha, and Shobhit Maheshwari

Description:

A geomapping of National Parks and a graph to display visitor data.

Files Submitted: Data Sources: Code Sources:
index.html US Government National Park Statistics D3 API Reference, Mike Bostock
NPvisitors.js US National Park Topojson, Paul Bartsch Interactive Data Visualization for the Web, Scott Murray
NPvisitors.css ArcGIS US 50 states + DC shapefile Let's Make a Map, Mike Bostock
parks.json Descriptions: Courtesy of Google Multiline Toggle, d3noob
visitors.csv Photos: Courtesy of National Park Service and pachd Free Image Service Simple d3.js tooltips, d3noob
Independent Farms in the USA, mpsimeon