For the bubble menu, we would like there to be at least one bubble that represents some category of the data (i.e., “Time spent by students,” which can be further broken down into other bubbles, such as “free time,” “hours spent studying,” “hours spent traveling.” What we will then try to do is break each of these sub-bubbles into two more bubbles that represent the average numbers for each school. We could also include scaling for the bubble size depending upon how the numbers compare for each school.
With respect to the multi-bar bar chart, we wanted to display multiple categories of the data simultaneously. Our idea was to split up rural and urban addresses and display free time, hours spent studying, and time to get to the school. Then we could determine the differences between the two and make some hypothesis as to how these differences arise.
For this project, we’ll improve our proficiency with bar charts and understand the added challenges of working with multiple parts of a data set.
With respect to the bubble menu, that is a completely new design feature that we haven’t used, so that will be a totally new learning experience for both of us. Granted, for the bubble graph, there is a lot of starter code available, but we will make sure that anything we don’t understand initially is commented and ultimately understood. Furthermore, the example that we will be starting with for the bubble graph uses a JSON data source and doesn’t simply use a data source in the Javascript file, so we will have to understand that difference as well. It is unclear how difficult it is to add an arbitrary number of levels of bubbles to a bubble menu, so we will start with the bare minimum and try to add as much as we can depending upon how difficult it is.