When critiquing websites it is important to pay attention to the following features: design elements–what works and what doesn’t; the information architecture–that is how the information is presented, how is the content categorized; and lastly, the points engagement on the site–are there commenting opps, can you contribute content, do these elements (or the lack thereof help […]
November 13, 2013
Many Eyes Visualization
The visualization I chose to critique from Many Eyes was titled Survival on the Titanic. I chose this visualization as it was one of the top rated and I am somewhat of a Titanic history buff. The visualization is a bubble chart that shows the number of people, their sex, their age (adult/child) and their […]
November 6, 2013
Using Data – The Chicago Homicide Project
Given the data Eugene Williams and July 27, 1919 I searched both the Chicago Homicide Project’s interactive database and Wikipedia. Search results from both returned that Eugene Williams, a 17 year old African American was killed on July 27, 1919 in Chicago by a white man named Ges. Stauber on a segregated beach causing a race […]