Project Update #10

[hcasazza]

This week's meeting focused on how to use svg and the layout of our website. Initially, we had some problems with the website after the overlap of Hunter and Peter's individual work accidentally removed new changes, but were able to adjust accordingly. After this, we acknowledged our recent progress on the site and were pleased by new material. Again, we discussed the hover feature for the letters and how we wanted it to look. As for svg, the goal is to create different comparative graphs showing Stalin's different agendas through the years of his letters. Our hope is to make significant progress with this by our meeting for Wednesday.

[JeremyTygh]

I think there are many different routes you could take in visualizing Stalin's different agendas through the years of his letters. Are you thinking about using bar graphs or something different to accomplish this task? I also think that the hover feature will certainly add more depth to your website. When using websites, I always appreciate this and it makes using the site much more responsive

[otakunaomi]

When it comes to the comparative graphs, what type of bar was your group thinking of creating. Bar graphs are a simple way of doing so (for example if his agenda's were put in terms of positive or negative [or along the lines of that idea], than you could make a bar graph going in two directions like the Vincent Van Gogh project, just make sure to have a counting system going into both directions). A stacked bar graph also may work, but this would definitely require ruling line markings and value so viewer can try to see what each count is per agenda for each letter. When it comes to positions rectangles stacked (or adjacent), you want to make sure the y value for the rectangle being stacked is where the initial rectangles height ends. For example for my project I did this:
Positive Recs

Neutral Recs

I have the neutral rectangles begin after the positive rectangles finished. In my case, the rectangles are stacked horizontally hence the x position was critical. If you are making the graph vertical, you would want to do this with the y position.

[djbpitt]

@otakunaomi Can you point us toward the graphs you mention in GitHub, so that we can see what they look like?

[otakunaomi]

http://vangogh.obdurodon.org/results.xhtml
This project. You can see the graphs under the Results section