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I came across this Slate article that presents data in a new and interesting way. How can I reverse engineer the website so I can learn, and potentially imitate the technique on my own.
To keep this constructive for future websites, please describe the general steps and what tools I would need to efficiently break the code down into manageable chunks.
I don’t know that you need many tools other than a web browser and view source. You probably will want to extract some of it into your own html/javascript files to test to make sure you have all the relevant code – not sure what else you might need. I think it’s a lot of trial and error.
In this particular case, viewing the source would give you your answer pretty easily – it’s not obfuscated at all. View source and look for
Right under that they include the javascript file relevant to the races and they have the html structure that their javascript uses.