CMU Diversity in Departments
Made by Eric Wang
Made by Eric Wang
This project provides a more cohesive way of understanding the diversity of CMU through a simple, easy to understand visualization of students' background data. -Data from 2014 enrollment gathered from SIS. Permission of use from department head.
Created: September 14th, 2014
This project provides a more cohesive way of understanding the diversity of CMU through a simple, easy to understand visualization of students' background data.
-Data from 2014 enrollment gathered from SIS. Permission of use from department head.
The circles are indisputably beautiful, and I think your visualization is extremely attractive. The hard part for me comes in understanding it - is this a concentration of the number of people in each school? I assume so, but then how does this circle account for the "popularity" of each major? From the description, it seems that these should do so, but I'm not sure how to read individual majors from the circles of the schools. On the other hand, if you can elaborate on that, I would declare this to be an extremely gripping visualization. Fantastic work acting on the concerns from Friday in finding this medium!
Hi, sorry for unclear descriptions. The size of the circle represent the relative "popularity" of the circle and the color proportions represent the demographics within each major.
I really like the way you chose to visualize the data. The circles are both very attractive and easy to gather data from. I also wanted to ask about depth of data gathered. I see you have numbers and percentages from international students and permanent residents in general, but have you considered making sub-charts that identify the original countries of origins of these people for these schools? I think that chart would have quite a few more colors, but with easy to see charts like this, I think that the visualization would probably still be easy to gather data from.
I'm impressed that you took the step to actually collect and represent this data, which was not required. Your visualization of the data is very beautiful. Can you explain why you used gradients instead of solid lines to demarcate the different groups of students? I'm not sure what the different shades of purple and yellow are indicating.
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