{"id":10397,"date":"2013-10-27T18:33:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T22:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/?p=10397"},"modified":"2013-10-28T16:55:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T20:55:25","slug":"stretching-the-truth-with-data-visualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/2013\/10\/27\/stretching-the-truth-with-data-visualization\/","title":{"rendered":"Stretching the Truth with Data Visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Racial Data for Greater Hartford School Districts 2009-2010<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.4.5 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe width=\"600\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/fusiontables\/embedviz?q=select+col2%3E%3E1+from+1Cy8bNRK9s6tKcPlZ6-7BnxVqqnoBeR4RkYHRQhw&#038;viz=MAP&#038;h=false&#038;lat=41.841617799506636&#038;lng=-72.68335028515628&#038;t=1&#038;z=10&#038;l=col2%3E%3E1&#038;y=2&#038;tmplt=2&#038;hml=KML\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>My intentions were to show stark racial division between Greater Hartford area school districts in 2009-2010 with the map above. To accomplish this I manipulated the data and selected colors that would evoke imagery. I chose to create data visualization for the percentage of white people in a district, instead of the percentage of people of color. I divided the data in increments of four. I used colors that more closely resembled human skin tones to help people perceive certain areas as being &#8220;white&#8221; and others as &#8220;brown&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Diversity Data for Greater Hartford School Districts 2009-2010<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.4.5 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe width=\"600\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/fusiontables\/embedviz?q=select+col2%3E%3E1+from+1qmbWpcKGyUReKUAl4GYdtmOkgldgZtO5V2QVZq8&#038;viz=MAP&#038;h=false&#038;lat=41.84059470098051&#038;lng=-72.5583808027344&#038;t=1&#038;z=10&#038;l=col2%3E%3E1&#038;y=2&#038;tmplt=2&#038;hml=KML\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>On this map, my goal was to show the Greater Hartford area as diverse. The perceived diversity of this map was achieved by using multiple shades of the same color. I used the percentage of people of color for this map. I divided the data set in 5 to allow for the usage of more colors. For both maps, I altered the information window to show the data that would support my goal of demonstrating diversity or segregation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racial Data for Greater Hartford School Districts 2009-2010 My intentions were to show stark racial division between Greater Hartford area school districts in 2009-2010 with the map above. To accomplish this I manipulated the data and selected colors that would evoke imagery. I chose to create data visualization for the percentage of white people in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/2013\/10\/27\/stretching-the-truth-with-data-visualization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stretching the Truth with Data Visualization<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10397"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10461,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397\/revisions\/10461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}