Progress report: August 29, 2012

Thanks to Nick, Jerzy and Emily for coming to our last volunteer day! - Sisi

Today's Goals

• Create break points and maps for:
  • Single-mother households
  • Test performance (3rd grade proficiency)
  • Graduation rate
• Cross-tab maps side-by-side layout
• Brainstorm showing individual schools infobox data

Today's Accomplishments

New maps have been created and added to the interactive tool. New cross-tab layout is now complete.

Data

• Added to Dropbox: _Visualization -> High school graduation data -> AdjustedCohortGradRates.csv
  • The data: Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rates for all high schools in D.C.

Visualization

• New cross-tab maps added to the navigation for now, just so Gwen can see a bigger version if needed. We'll be taking this out for the final product.
• Cross-tab maps are now REAL DATA.

Interactive tool

• Added fixed top navigation for easy access to cross-tab analysis