Glimpse into my life

For this project, we had to choose something personal. Which begs the question of what should I do then I realized, what is more, personal than your own bullet journal? Since the start of the pandemic, I have started a bullet journal that I (more often than not) contribute to. In my journal, I track my habits of skin care, video games, walking dogs, reading, and no spending. For this project, I chose to use October 2022 and input all the data (besides personal narratives) into a spreadsheet. This includes the habits with the spending amount and items, events, and my happiness scale (the higher the number the happier I was 1-10). When looking for ideas I stumbled across this bullet journal idea from Tableau Public by Madalina Andrei needless to say I was instantly inspired by her work. I knew I wanted a monthly calendar view with different linked sheets instead of cluttering it on one page. However here are the issues I came across;

  • The “marks” are not different colors for the “yes” or “no” for the habit tracker
  • The text for the monthly overview would not display on the “marks” so I had to manually add text boxes for each day. Which was annoying and not accessible on different devices.
  • The scaling of the “marks” was very finicky causing there to be a lack of color.
  • Did not figure out how to use custom backgrounds

    Overall I feel as if this project looks unfinished due to the situations that I had so hopefully I will have the time to research and play around more with Tableau to make it fully finished.

Rodent Complaints in NYC

Rodents not only are annoying but they can be potentially harmful to people, communities, and homes. From spreading diseases such as hantavirus, salmonella, rabies, etc. to entailing property damage that can range upwards of thousands of dollars. In order to see how rodents have emerged in NYC and to hopefully recognize patterns for the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. So my question is, How long have rats wreaked havoc in NYC? In the future, I hope to add more text to my visualizations, add trend lines, and try more unique styles of data visualizations!

Design Process:

  • Density Map- I knew I wanted a map that can be viewed throughout the years whether that be density or number of cases. In regards to why I chose density (or thermal map), it was more emerging to the viewer rather than a map with the listed amount of cases.
  • Tree Map- Initially I wanted to do a bar graph however I wanted to step outside of my comfort zone and try a new form. I actually quite liked this form of representation! I liked that all the boxes were unified yet all different ranging in size to represent the number of cases.
  • Line Graph- In order to backup the treemap I chose the line graph as a more recognizable data aid. Not only that, I wanted the viewers to see clearly how many more cases there were in certain categories.
  • Color Choices- When I close my eyes and think of “NYC” I think of the yellow taxi cab immediately therefore I wanted to incorporate yellow. Not only did I want yellow, but I wanted it to be accessible to people that may be color blind. Tableau has a built-in color-blind palette feature developed by Maureen Stone and decided to use it for my line graph in which there are 5 categories.
Direct Link: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/elizabeth.garrison/viz/RodentProject1/Dashboard1

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