Life in Hampton Roads
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Life in Hampton Roads. Data Visualization Project Progress Report February 25, 2012. Team Members. Andrew Wharton Timothy Werner Harshith Bandi. Project. Life in Hampton Roads (LIHR) survey
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Life in Hampton Roads Data Visualization Project Progress Report February 25, 2012
Team Members • Andrew Wharton • Timothy Werner • HarshithBandi
Project • Life in Hampton Roads (LIHR) survey • Goal: “To develop a baseline of social/economic indicators for use by local government and other community organizations” • Measuring local quality of life based on indicators
Data • Telephone survey • SPSS Format • Had to extract to CSV format • Three different files • 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • Numeric and nominal answers
Approach • Cleaning • Remove non-essential data • Handle missing data • Give a special value • Separate numeric data from nominal data • Aggregation • Combine multiple questions/answers into more generic categories • This allows us to easily combine all three years
Approach (cont.) • Scatterplot Matrix for numeric data • Shows a lot of data in small space • Shows trend over time • Word cloud for nominal data • Shows common opinions on specific topics • Filtering and sorting
Issues • Data cleaning • Time-consuming • File formats • Cryptic labeling (q1, q2, etc.)
Development • Tableau for initial analysis • Get an overview • Check for anomalies • d3 for final product • HTML • JavaScript • CSS