Melissa Denby

Adam Sage:

I think this is such an interesting idea for a data visualization! I like that this is a practical, easy, visual way for a patient to track their blood pressure over time as well as a medical professional. I think it works best when when both the systolic and diastolic are grouped into one line. I also prefer the version with color opposed to the black and white version. I'm torn about having "X" on the days of the week, on one hand it is an easy way to mark whether the medicine was taken, but I think having both "X" and the line colored would be too much. I like the blood pressure being listed under each day name, I think a medical professional would find that to be helpful information. I also agree with the class comments that having a calendar view of the month, similar to a mini calendar on your phone, would be helpful to see an overview of which days medicine wasn't taken. Maybe even a trend line or number of days blood pressure was maintained? Overall, though I think you did a great job!

ZZ:

I was a bit confused during the presentation of but in looking at the Tableau slides and getting to interact with the maps I understand it better. I understand the graphic most when I roll over each state and the number of actual vs. estimated wounded pops up. I think it would be helpful if the states were group within a range and a color assigned to each range. The blue to red ends up with a lot of states being pink or slightly different blues that make it hard to differentiate the ranges. I almost wonder if three maps (for each country) side by side to show actual, estimated, and the difference would work as well...or a bar graph since you are comparing three different numbers.