Ok, so this week has been pretty fruitful. Dr. Polack sent me the data, so I started to write the main code for the gut of my visualization. If you now click on the map, I have the black table and asian table showing the correct amount of people. Putting in the white won’t be hard at all, and the hawaiian/indian ones will be piece of cake (mostly because they don’t show up at all). All that will be left is to make the Hispanic person and display him (I won’t be done of course, but with the really important stuff I will).
My only design qualm is the rounding I’ve had to undertake. I’ve decided to give anything between 1-7% 1 person, anything 7-12% two people, 13-17.5% percent 3, etc. This creates a slight problem because I sometimes end up with one too many people on the floor, so I just delete one from the white person category to compensate (considering each time the white person has 15 or more, I don’t feel so bad about it). This means the visualizations won’t be exact, but I don’t feel so bad about that since it’s supposed to approximate to a reasonable degree to make the data easier to understand.
In the next day or two I’ll post a screenshot of what the working visualization looks like (however, it’ll be much better on Wednesday to just try it out in front of everyone since it’s moving).
November 5, 2007 at 11:36 am |
“This means the visualizations won’t be exact, but I don’t feel so bad about that since it’s supposed to approximate to a reasonable agree to make the data easier to understand.”
I think it’s a good choice to sacrifice precision for readability.