A3-RagnarSkulason
From CS294-10 Visualization Fa08
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Stage 1
Describe the data domain and storyboard interactive visualization techniques you will use (due October 1, 2008)
Domain
Mobile Usage Records
Description
The application I am going to build will display user usage records for mobile phone usage and related statistics.
It's a problem for telephone companies to visualize cell phone statistics and usage records for their customers. I have not seen proper usage and statistic visualization from any of the cellphone providers I have been in business with. So in this assignment I will try to create a program to visualize cellphone statistics and usage records in a good manner.
Storyboard
Stage 2
Implement your design (due October 13, 2008)
Assignment programed made in Flex and Flare.
Assignment 3 program
Stage 3
Produce a final writeup (due October 13, 2008)
I did not manage to finish my project with a proper data nor fixing all the little snitches I wanted. It would not take a long time to finish it if I will someday have the time, but this will do for the demonstration purpose of this assignment.
In the left top corner is a calendar which the user selects the period to analyze. By default current month should be selected. In my project the calendar is not connected. Below the calendar is the summary statistic window and and at the bottom is a stack graph. In the right part of the visualization are the usage records, grouped by dates. The summary statistic window shows the summary of each category for itself. How many records of each type exist in given period. If a type is selected the program focuses on that type. The day records are expanded only with that type showing and the graph displays only that type. In the this version of the project I only use randomly generated data. There is not consistent between the data in the graph, the records and the summary statistics.
In the whole, I guess I spent somewhere between 35 and 45 hours on this project. The most time went into learning on the environments and the programing/markup languages. Especially the little things, how to cast numbers, format them, loading data into flare and so on. If I had a little more time the next things I would (maybe will) add is finalize the graph. Add interactions to it, legend, and similar features as the Job Voyager application. I would also clean up the tables and fixing and redevelop the calendar. At last I would like to connect the application to real or sample data.
