Project Overview
Ever get caught in the outward surge of students exiting class during passing time and wonder just how many people are packed into one building? Our visualization project combines student class enrollment with course meeting locations to examine how many students are within campus buildings taking class during the day and week of a given semester.
While satisfying a curiousity for which buildings are bound to be the busiest during passing time, we also believe that examining such data is an essential aspect of evaluating campus building usage, which has implications for energy and space efficiency questions, among other topics.
The visualization consists of the following main components:
- A map visualization that overlays the number of students per building (encoded by visual area) on a map of the campus and allows for users to examine the density of certain buildings or areas of the campus. [more about zooming in and out and the other awesome features of the map here...]
- A bar graph visualization of the density data that allows for users to examine building density encoded by length and easily compare the density of specific buildings, independent of their geographical location.
- Three time-selection "sliders" that allow users to indicate the specific time of day, day of the week, and semester for which they wish to view building density.
- An animated "slideshow" option, where the visualization runs through each hour of each day for all the semesters available and shows the changing building densities over time. Available for both the map and bar graph views.