Chess Viz

Final Project for CSC316 (Data Visualization Class at the University of Toronto)

Dataset: The 2025 January Canadian Chess Federation dataset, 2025 CanBase January Update
Team Members: Victor Zheng, Andy Feng, Harsh Bawja

Overview

Code is all stored in the root directory. There is a css, data, img, js folders for the code. index.html is deployed using GitHub Actions to our website, enabling CI/CD. The data folder also contains the scripts folder which we used for manipulating and cleaning the data. We also have under the pgns folder game data for the players.

References and Acknowledgements

• chess-dataviz library
• pgn-extract for extracting pgn games
• CanBase for Canadian master games
• Chess Federation of Canada for chess membership and player history
• Chess Federation of Canada Newsletter for Canadian Chess photos
• GeoNames.org for geographic coordinate data in reference to postal codes in our original dataset
• opendatasoft for geojson data of Canadian provinces and territories
• world-atlas for topojson file of world countries

Libraries Used:

• Bootstrap (basic CSS)
• FullPage (HTML structure)
• Chess-dataviz (pre-built d3 modules)

Relevant Links:

Live site at chessviz.github.io/canadian-chess/

Video Demo on YouTube and also available here.

Project book that documents every step and design decision of your final project project-book.

GitHub page available here