Comments on other blogposts
Wandering around other groups indeed helped us to learn new things and gain new ideas for our project. Somehow, it was a bigger diverge-emerge-converge process where we pooled our ideas with others, tried to merge them for better solutions. Here are some thoughts on their works.
TEAM 18 — Visualization_star:
Two things to keep:
- 4th combination in emerge step is very informative and it would be interesting to see the relationship between 4 different features in a single plot.
- The work that is done on miro board, is well-organized. Certainly, this will lead to better brainstorming and more ideas. Also, it makes reviewing easier.
Two things to change:
- In general, I see that there are only 3 different visualizations techniques which are barplots, piecharts, and maps. I may suggest to think of different types of plots such as heat maps, network graphs etc. (even if these plots may sound unrelated or hard to implement).
- In 9th combination in emerge step, the max salary is described by colour which is not so useful for continuous features. It may be better to extend piechart to a 3D one and the height of the slices can be determined by each industries maximum salary.
TEAM 4 — ReadyPlayerOne
Two things to keep:
- Your visualizations are varied, you are not using only simple plots. The one which inspired me the most was this one:
I also noticed the amount of raw material you have started with. It is impressive how creative you are.
One more thing — your visualisations contain more than two variables, which make them more interesting. At the same time, your visualisations are still legible and pleasant to look at.
- I really like the look of your blog. The visualisations are clear and easy to read. The illustrations are embedded in your posts, which makes them professionally looking.
Two things to change:
For this “clock-plot” I would consider trying to find a different model to ease seeing tendencies through years. In this clock set-up, it might be difficult to analyse changes in time.
It is a pity you give up on providing maps during the converge phase. Your visualisations are very rich in terms of presenting changes in time, but in my opinion is equally interesting and useful to see trends in different parts of the globe.
TEAM 12 — The Illusionists
Two things to keep:
- Heavily using the geographic element is a good idea since it can reflect the international nature of the research subject, terrorism. The sketch of merging an alluvial diagram and the world map is clever to provide more information of the terrorism flow, Figure 5.
- The green-red scale (Figure 6) representing quartiles of numbers of attacks is statistically interesting. As the team cited, it is utilized in the US Armed Forces. Thus, the visualization can be potentially practical.
Two things to change:
- The team presented the first research question on the blog. However, the temporal nature of question was not applied in the Flow map (Figure 5). They can totally put year as a filter of the visualization. It benefits in two ways 1) Visualizing the trend of attack flows, 2) Improving the interactive feature.
- Figure 3 is efficient and simple to answer the first research question. Adding to that it provides an important information of types of attacks overtime. As an audience, i.e., working in the US Military, it would help related military units prepare the solutions or predict what they probably to face off in a particular region.
