Below is our embedded visualization as of today, and this link can also take you to the map in another tab if the embedded version is not working.
This map, made in ArcGIS, is just one of several visualizations we are creating for our final project: mapping Carleton alumni through their graduate schools and degree types. This specific visualization is a map of the top 50 graduate schools attended by Carleton alums and the types of degrees pursued at each institution. Some of the locations were misread when we added the data as a layer, so we needed to edit a few names (i.e., so NYU showed up in lower Manhattan, rather than in Ithaca), but didn’t need to do any major data cleaning because the data was already quite clean and organized. Once we uploaded the data to ArcGIS, we needed to figure out the best way to stylize our map to clearly and effectively display our data. Since other visualizations we create (other maps, bar charts, etc.) will be geared more towards specific collegiate majors and post-grad degree types, we wanted this first “master map” to display the data in whole by showing not only the locations of each of these top 50 schools, but also differentiating between each by size and color, and adding pop-up windows with the degree type breakdowns for each school. The map above takes all these into account, and while it can be hard to navigate because some more popular schools cast shadows (or in this case, circles) over the less popular schools in the same city/state.
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This is a very nice visualization done here. We were one of the groups working with alumni data, but this is very different compared to what we did. We wanted to see how the most popular majors changed over time. However, there might be some interesting overlaps between both projects.
Wow, this is a really cool visualization! I didn’t know that data on this was readily available. The tables when you click on the schools are very cleanly laid out as well, and you can easily see which schools are the most attended. I feel like I could spend a lot of time exploring this, nice work!
This is such an eye-catching visualization! The animations really add to the experience… Flourish is genuinely an incredibly robust tool and this is an excellent use for it.
I might suggest one alteration to make this chart blossom even more: adding some variation in the color scheme, such as using different colors for different majors. Even just keeping it simple, you could have two colors–one for STEM majors and one for humanities majors.