Ducky's Info Vis Writeup

Motivation

• Users get to keep context since map visible underneath.

Challenges and decisions

• Which data files
• What color scale? Used Color Brewer as a starting point, but opacity meant that their colors weren't really right. Bumped up the saturation considerably, colors still hard to distinguish. Perhaps go for lots of indistinguishable steps?
• What is the performance? Will this scale? How many resources would be needed to show the whole US, and at what cost?
• Aggregation

Conclusions

• Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = DuckySherwood