Feedback

Overview

Many of the visualizations within this website were reviewed before released. I received a variety of different suggestions and feedback that made this website what it looks like today. Before this release I created prototypes for the final project with two different releases.

My Alpha Release contained prototypes that were reviewed by Sophie Engle, my Data Visualization Professor. The prototypes were my first approach at creating an interactive, changing pie chart in D3 in order to visualizae the Career characteristics of people that live in Hawaii in comparison to the rest of the United States. I received feedback that eventually led me to creating the D3 visualiztion on the Career page.

My Beta Release contained prototypes that were reviewed by my peers and classmates. The prototypes were my first approach at creating interactive visualizations in Tableau for the Housing and Income characteristics of people that live in Hawaii in comparison to the rest of the United States. I received feedback that eventually led me to creating the visualiztions on the Housing and Income pages.

Feedback and Changes

For my Alpha Release, I received the suggestion to approach the visualization differently. Immediately from the first few glances, my Professor, Sophie Engle, knew that a stacked bar visualization was a better approach at comparing characteristics that were out of 100%. My Professor told me that I could still implement the pie chart in a smaller, text-implemented way, but she still believed the stacked bar graph was the way to go for the main visualizations.

I ended up taking her advice and created a tooltip interactive, stacked-bar, D3 visualization on the Career page. I also ended up taking out the income section from this prototype and moving the entire subject into it's own section on the Income page. I thought that income deserved its own page since there are different aspects of Individual, Family, and Housing Income that need to be addressed as well. I also thought that the different aspects gave a great transition from housing and income to individual career choices. I was a bit ambitious and also wanted to do some brushing techniques, smaller embeded pie graphs, and a changing legend, but I ended up with the stacked bar graph as is with its changing pages, static legend, and tooltip for details on demand.

For my Beta Release, I was given a lot of feedback. I was told that the comparison between Hawaii and the United States (including Hawaii) was a bit confusing and hard to distinguish how much influence Hawaii's data had on the data from the overall United States. I was also told that my side-by-side circle graphs were a bit bland and that I should combine different types of visualizations to give a better analysis.

I ended up taking the advice of my classmates and peers. I began with the issue of distinquishing Hawaii's influence on the data for United States. I created a map visualization to accompany the data from the rent and housing on the Housing page. I also added a map for the Income page. In order to make the side-by-side visualization more interesting, I added a variety of other states to the visualization as well. I decided to keep the side-by-side graph overall though because I thought it was important to visualize the aspects of family and household help when it comes to income.