What's Most Important About Your Child's School Experience?
The graph on the right is a visualization of the responses to a parent survey question that asked what was most important about your child's education. The graph used a Wordle gives greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. In this case we see that 'learning', 'environment', and 'learn' seem to be the most popular words used in the data collected. I decided to use the data and present it in a different form called Phrase Net which displays network of related words and ideas. I found that Phrase Net did not give a as good of an idea as to what parents felt was more important for their children in school.
Percentage of students in grades 9 - 12 who reported carrying a weapon (by race)
I feel that the first graph on the left is easier to read and more accurate compared to the circle graph. On the first graph the lines are side by side easily showing the increases and decreases in the data. The circle graph is more difficult to read because with every year there is a different graph created which doesn't allow you to compare percentages side by side. You would find yourself have to alternate back and fourth.
Post Secrets
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations.post-secret
This is a collection of random anonymous secrest from 'post secret' blog site. Secrets that people hide from family, friends, loved ones, and even strangers. This data set will point out the most common topic of secrest and what most people don't want anyone else to know.
