Word count bar graph

[jofwu]

Last week I shared the idea of using this all to make a word count bar graph for the books. (maybe there's other interesting stats we could do this with, though nothing is coming to me right now...)

Here was a quick conceptual sketch I made:

I assume this isn't a technical challenge. I can input word counts in data.json. Pick the length we want for the maximum bar size, based on the radius of the circle. Mark a straight line from the book's anchor point toward the center of the circle, where the length is the book's word count out of the maximum. You get the idea. Hover on the bar to get a tooltip with the total number. Maybe include some concentric rings as grid lines?

The biggest problem with this is how to fit it in naturally. It would look pretty bad just colored on top of all the arrows, I assume. So some button that turns all arrows off and then slaps these bars on... But that sounds kind of random. :)

Just an idea...