https://www.pangaea.de/ has that and I think all their code is open?  I think 
you can either click on a country or draw a bounding box. 
On the first page you don't get very granular, but on the results from that you 
can get extremely detailed. 

Christina

-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Irwin
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 8:06 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [CODE4LIB] datavis question: filtering data table by map clicks

Hi folks,

I'm looking for the right tool for the job. I'm helping a faculty member who 
wants an interactive bibliography: click on the map and get all of the bib 
entries that pertain to that country. It would be like the visual equivalent of 
this common way of filtering text with jQuery:
https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_filter_lists.asp

I'm imagining some thing that looks a bit like this, with the country 
highlighted and the bib details below:

[cid:[email protected]]

This screenshot cobbles together a couple of views I was able to put together 
in Tableau, and I imagine that Tableau might be able to support the kind of 
application we're going for. But maybe a different datavis tool would do it 
easier, better, etc.

Does anyone know of a tool that would do this sort of filter-by-map-click 
function? Anyone know what that kind of function might be called? It seems like 
it would be super-cool, but my Google-fu has failed me thus far.

So far, I can get Tableau to show me the bib details for a single entry when 
there's only one entry per country, or it will show  me (as seen above) the 
number of entries for a country with more numerous entries, then it takes a few 
clicks to get to the bib details.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Ken

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