Yesterday (Thursday, March 31st) was our walkthrough presentations. This gave everyone a chance to present their current progress on their project and get feedback from their classmates and professors. I feel like I have made decent progress on my site that I presented and got a few good pointers.
New Additions
There are a few good suggestions that were made that I’m excited to try to add.
The first addition is an option where the coloring of each state is based on the year directly previous. Personally, I would never use this feature because I’m not sure how much info it would tell you, but I think it would be a good option.
Next, I want to change the option for “change over time” to use a baseline of whatever the starting year is. Right now, it uses a baseline of 1850 automatically, but I am hoping to use the user’s input.
I also want to add a “Rewind 5 Years” button up next to the current year on the top left. This would only appear when the map is paused.
There was also a suggestion to try and make the options faster, but I am not sure how much faster I want to make it. I am going to continue to play with it to see how fast the data can come back without breaking it.
I am excited to add these new features over the next couple weeks before presentations which are a month away!
