NUEVA CENSUS

THE DATA

For my final data visualization project, I chose to work with the Nueva census form that we sent out earlier in the year.

I decided to work with this dataset because I found the data really interesting and I wanted to add more to my code. We had a project before this final project where we were working with the Nueva census data; it was really interesting to me so I chose to continue to add to the code I had already created.

THE VISUALIZATION

In my visualization, the data is represented as dots, the x and y values being labeled on the screen.

To interact with the visualization, try holding either x or y and clicking on a box to set the x or y value to the data you chose, then hold enter to see the data showing up on the screen.

MY OBSERVATIONS

One interesting thing I noticed during this project is the correlation between certain data points, such as the correlation between happiness and time spent on social media. I noticed that when people rated their happiness higher, generally their time spent on social media was low.

Something I still wonder about is if the survey method is the best method. I question if the data collectoin is the best way to go, especially if the data accurately represents the people who took the survey. I wonder this because on the questions where you have to rate something from 1-10, people may have a different idea of what 10 is, so it could change a lot of their perception of the answer of the questoin vs what is actually shown.

MY PROCESS

The most challenging moment of this project was trying to figure out how to pull my data from certain rows from the sheets without writing out each possibility. I started this project with writing out ever scenario (ex. if x = age and y = happiness graph ___) but I soon realized that there were too many combinations so I had to find a way to do it with a variable which was may more challenging then I thought it would be.

If I had more time, I would like to make it so you can pick the different colors for each dot, getting darker/lighter depending on the x and y value of the dot.

My proudest moment during this project was when I got all the different census resoponses working, so that you could click on any of the 8 boxes and get a graph that represents the responses.