Completed my weekend of Daytum recording. I’m not sure I learned very much. I don’t really drink anything but water, so that graph is amusingly simple. I added in .5 blue icee because I sipped some of my husband’s drink at the movies and decided it made the graph more interesting than just a big blue circle. I did realize that I interact with a lot of people on a daily basis, so that graph is very crowded, though my family members compose a notable majority. It was interesting on that one to play with some different display options. The data makes more sense, to me, in a bar graph than a pie chart; and calculating an average for that number was pretty pointless, since there was such a wide disparity in my frequency of interactions–while my family members showed up 9-12 times each, most of the other people on my list only interacted with me 1 or 2 times over the weekend.
As far as how this applies to my project with Marvin…first, I need to dig more into the stats on soldiers and decide where I want to go with his charts. I had to leave class early that week due to a family emergency, and have not yet taken the time to fully catch up. However, I am seeing that different kinds of display are interesting depending on what I want to highlight. If he is notable in some way–unique from other soldiers–that can be interesting to note on some kind of chart. While he seems to be pretty typical in most ways, I’m not sure what the most interesting way to present that information might be.
So, I am still a little stumped on that, but giving it more thought and hoping inspiration will strike.
Leave a Comment