(Lab 8): Goals

• Make clear and well reasoned design decisions
• Decide when to use interaction to enhance your project
• Control the look and feel of your dashboard

We have a few preliminary questions:

1. What is the distribution of first letters in US Baby names? Are some letters more popular than others?
2. Are there any outliers: Male or female names that have changed or are assigned to different genders more than others?
3. What is the popularity of my name over time?
4. Are there any other interesting trends in baby names that emerge from these exploratory visualizationg?

We will use a few visualizations to complete this

2. A treemap to show the distribution of names
3. A line chart and search bar to search for your own name
4. A scatterplot to show the position of a name between male and female
5. Stacked bar charts to show the % of a name for male vs female
6. A wordcloud to illustrate the distribution of first letters

Then we created a dashboard with the line chart and the treemaps.