The Impact of Robots on US Jobs

By Keven Dickey and Sarah Leinicke

Summary:

This website was built for a final project in the class CS 171 - Visualization from Harvard University. We used D3 as our primary tool to create various visualizations about the potential impact of robotics on jobs in the United States.

URLS:

Website: http://neuquen.github.io
Screencast: http://screencast.com/t/hupWLNPAb

Site Structure:

HTML Pages:

Our site consists of an introductory page and five supporting pages, with each supporting page containing a separate visualization:

index.html
robotUnitsSold.html
marketShareData.html
futureOfEmployment.html
byState.html
employmentByOccupation.html

D3 Scripts:

The code for each D3 visualization is contained in a separate JavaScript file and includes a main JavaScript file for any code that should be shared among multiple visualizations:

js/main.js
js/robotUnitsSold.js
js/marketShareData.js
js/futureOfEmployment.js
js/byState.js
js/employmentByOccupation.js
js/employmentByOccupation-timeline.js

Stylesheets:

We used a single stylesheet for our custom styles and also included the bootstrap stylesheet:

css/style.css
css/bootstrap.min.css

Third-party JavaScript Libraries:

We used the following third-party libraries on various pages on our site:

js/bootstrap.min.js - Bootstrap
js/colorbrewer.js - ColorBrewer
js/d3-legend.min.js - D3 Legend
js/d3-queue.v2.min.js - D3 Queue
js/d3.tip.js - D3 Tip
js/d3.v3.min.js - D3
js/jquery-2.2.0.min.js - jQuery
js/jquery-ui.min.js - jQuery UI
js/topojson.js - TopoJSON

Data:

Below are the data files, descriptions, and sources.

data/ByState2015Min.csv
description: 2015 state employment by field and occupation, without unused columns source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2015 State Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates, http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oessrcst.htm

data/MarketShareData.csv
description: projected future market sizes of robotics in major economic sectors
source: Robotic Revolution - Global Robot & AI Primer, Bank of America Merril Lynch, December 2015, http://www.bofaml.com/content/dam/boamlimages/documents/PDFs/robotics_and_ai_condensed_primer.pdf

data/RobotUnitsSold.csv
description: worlwide industrial robotics sales since 2004
source: International Federation of Robotics, World Robot 2015 Industrial Robot Statistics, http://www.ifr.org/industrial-robots/statistics/

data/The-Future-of-Employment.csv
description: the probability of computerization for 702 occupations
source: “The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation?”, Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, Appendix, http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf

data/employment-by-occupation.csv
description: US employment and unemployment by field and occupation since 2000
source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employed and unemployed persons by occupation, not seasonally adjusted, http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab13.htm and http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab14.htm

data/us.json
data/us-state-names.tsv
description: mapping data
source: Mike Bostock, http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/raw/4090846/us.json, https://gist.github.com/mbostock/4090846#file-us-state-names-tsv