Chakiera Shields

Jessica and Miranda

I really enjoyed your presentation and the fact that it was almost as if you guys were telling a story. This was particularly interesting to me because I taught English in a Jewish school in Buenos Aires last summer and the students loved to introduce me to books like the ones you describe in your presentation. I especially loved the variety of visualizations you provided and it is amazing how much you can manipulate data in tableau. It was a nice, engaging project and each visualization kept me interested throughout your entire presentation.

It was also an excellent idea to display most of the data in decades and for the map visualizations, it was nice to see where exactly the majority of books have been published. One thing I am not sure about is whether these books are written in English or if these include translated books. If so, maybe you could specify which books were originally written in what language to allow for more background information about the published books. This is a minor criticism, but I would assume that a good majority of the writers of Holocaust books were not English speakers and I would love to know what other languages these books were written in during each time period.

Overall, this was a great project and it was hard to criticize because you cover a lot of aspects in your visualizations.

Yiyang Shi & Lingjie Wang

This is a very interesting topic and I couldn’t wait to see how my state, Maryland, compared to other states with their crime rate. You did a great job making sure there is a clear distinction between states with high crime rates vs states with low crime rate and it was nice to see how each state measured up to the national average.

However, your presentation provides a lotttt of visualizations which is pretty awesom, but I had no idea where to start. I felt that some of the line graphs/scatterplots at first glance were a bit confusing and overwhelming like the page “Crime types” and “CrimeTypeRateChangebyYear” but I’m sure after hearing your explanation in class I should be able to understand more. It would also be nice to see maybe the major cities in each state and how the crime rate would somehow increase as you get closer to the city (maybe a heatmap) but that would require more time.

I would also like to know what the crime rate’s units are in the Total Crime Rate: States vs National Average, specifically because the value is shown but not what the rate is representing. (what does a crime rate of 30,000 mean?)

Overall, I loved this presentation and just would say to narrow down your choices to present to us, showing maybe a few visualizations you thought weren’t great along with the visualizations that best represented your information, and then give an explanation as to how you came to this conclusion. It could be possible that you are only going to show a few in class but at first glance there is a lot going on.

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