Today we were tasked with making a dashboard which focuses on Analysis or an Infographic visualistion. The data for today came from CatTracker.Org and I chose to focus on Australia.
Requirements of the day included:
- Each person must work independently
- Data Prep is allowed
- They can choose to use all of the data or a selection: United States, United Kingdom, Australia or New Zealand
- They must sketch their idea and include it in their blog which needs to be wrote before 4pm presentations
So here's my blog! Today started okay as I tried to figure out the best way to join the data together as there were no fields in common (A more in-depth look found that there in fact was). Here I started to prep the data and remove fields I did not want. I then played around in tableau to see what I wanted to make. I wanted to focus on the different sexes of cats to see if they behave differently and drew up a quick sketch.
My main idea was to focus on the movements of the cats throughout parts of the day to see if females or male cats move more/go further. I found that in cats that are younger, there is more movement but around the same area (my guess is their house). Older cats seem to roam a bit more than younger cats, and Mature cats act like younger cats. Within this I built a dashboard so you can compare a male/female or unknown sex cat with the opposite sex of the same age to see how their behaviors are different. It is hard to come to a conclusion within visualising the data in a more in-depth way, but certainly, from playing around with the maps you can start to see the trend that Male cats go further distances then their female counterparts. With more time I would of liked to delve into this a bit more and come to a stronger conclusion!
My struggles included:
- Too wide of a scope - did not manage to answer my main question fully
- Too much time spent on making a vision come true - one of my maps used table calcs and after I received help from Chris and Lorna we eventually got it to work - but it did not work the way I wanted so I had to scrap the idea
Good things :
- I did make an alternative map which is functional but not exactly what I wanted. Skateboard!!