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← Back to Home Hurricane Season in 2012 - Lab 9 - Part 2 In the second part of lab 9, we created a temporally animated map displaying the hurricane season of 2012. To better organize and visualize our results, we made a dashboard in Tableau. In the dashboard, the map is the main focus of the dashboard, with a title and description at the top. I put all of the data filters on the right side of the dashboard as well as data credits and author information at the bottom right. In the data filters, the most important one is the ISO time filter which allows you to scroll with the time chart or simply hit the play buttom to have the time series go. Additonally, you can filter by Basin or hurricane name down below as well as see the legend for the proportional size to wind metrics. There is an embedded video down below to show the map actually animated because Tableau public does not allow it natively. Ryan Facks ...
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Map Animation - Lab 9 Part 1

← Back to Home Illinois Population Map Animation - Lab 9 Part 1 Task 1 In this first task for lab 9, we used ArcGIS to create an animated map that shows the population of Illinois counties from 1800 to 2010. Each map key-frame is 10 years (one decade) apart from each other and we made it so the animation has is symbolized on a yellow to orange symbology. Ryan Facks - zID 2027325 Illinois Population Map Animation in 3D - Lab 9 Part 1 Task 2 In this second task for lab 9, we created the same animated map as we did in task 1 part 1, except we made it 3D. I used my middle mouse button to create a isometric view of the state of Illinois to better capture the 3D aspect of this. I oriented it so that Chicago was in the "top" of the map because I knew that the population "tower" would be far taller than any of the other counties and I did not want to block them. Again, we used the same yellow to orang...
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Web Mapping - Lab 8

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← Back to Home Web Mapping - Northern Illinois University - Lab8-1 This is a web map created for lab-8-1 for EAE 452. In this map we used the Google Maps API and some Javascript coding to create our own map. For mine, I disabled the map controls and created a red border around the outside of the map. The Holmes Student Center is marked as a map marker and has a pop up when you click it. For the image, I had to get the most recent image of the Holmes Student Center off of NIU's website because the one provided in the lab had a broken link. Click around and explore the map! Ryan Facks - zID 2027325 Google Maps Layers - Lab-8-2 This is a Google maps web map that we used ArcGIS to create the layer in. The map shows the unemployment rates for Illinois Counties in 2020. I used a ColorBrewer2.org scheme to symbolize this map and ensure that it is color blin...
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Final Project - Chicago Divvy Bike Usage in 2019

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← Back to Home Chicago Divvy Bike Usage Dashboard (EAE 452 Final Project) This dashboard is used for my final project for EAE 452. This dashboard seeks to provide a spatial temporal analysis of Divvy Bike usage across Chicago in 2019. I restricted my analysis to a single full year for two main reasons. One, the Chicago data portal only has data for 2013 - 2019 and two, there are simply too many records for Tableau to handle on my computer if I include all available data (It was over 21 million records!). The dashboard is constructed with four main components; The map view of stations and their usage numbers, the trips by hour bar chart, and the total trips bar chart, and an embeded Google maps area. All four elements are connected together due to a shared data source, dashboard actions, and there are data filters to further drill down on the data. For example, you can select a particular day of the week an...
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Chicago Private School Dashboard and USA Child Poverty Dashboard (Lab 7 - Week 8)

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← Back to Home Chicago Private School Enrollment (Lab 7 - Dashboard 1) This dashboard was created using Chicago Data Portal public data on the enrollment status of private schools within Cook County Illinois. The dashboard consists of four main components which are a map symbolized by each town, a map showing enrollment numbers that is symbolized by color and proportional size, a listing of all address locations, and a Google Maps viewer that shows the satellite view of a selected location. All of the elements of this dashboard are tied together so if you click on a data point in one, it will zoom-to and/or highlight the corresponding data point in all of the other dashboard components. This dashboard seeked to employ our understanding of color and color blind friendly map making by using the website ColorBrewer2.org to find a color pallete that is suitable for the most amount of audiences. Addtionally, I ...
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Global Internet Usage Dashboard - Lab 6 Task 1

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← Back to Home Global Internet Usage Dashboard (Lab 6 - Task 1) This is a dashboard that we created using the global internet usage data provided by our textbook. This dashboard contains three parts, a global map, a timeline over years, and a scrollable ranking element. To help the user comprehend the data, we added text elements such as a title, a paragraph explaining what the data is, and filters. In the top right, you can see filters for region and the data selected which apply to all three dashboard elements. Additionally, in the bottom right there is a single value "Year" slider that applies to all of the individual sheets. There is also a legend for each color coded region as well as a "current year" element that changes dynamically. Data credits and creation date information can be found in the bottom right. Explore the data! Ryan Facks - zID 2027325 ...
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NFL Stadium Shapes Maps

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← Back to Home NFL Stadium Shapes with PNG shapes (Figure 11-8) This map is a map of the NFL stadium's with PNG files used as shapes. For this map, we used png images to represent the domed, open, and retractable stadium types. We used a dark background for this map to allow the shapes to "pop out." Ryan Facks - zID 2027325 NFL Stadium Circle Shapes, Light Backgorund, and Annotations (Figure 11-9) This map is a map of the NFL stadium's with simple circle shapes indicating domed, open, and retractable roofs. This map uses a lighter background than the one above and also applies annotations to "callout" teams that are clustered too close together. Ryan Facks - zID 2027325 Discussion: Figure Ground R...
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