Category: LIS4317

  • Module 2: My Geographic Map of Florida State Parks

    For this assignment, we are asked to find a dataset and use it to build a map in Tableau. For my dataset, I created a visual for Florida State Parks Boundaries from the platform. 

    As I was creating this visualization, I came across some challenges. First, I had to do some basic tweaking, as my dataset did not include longitude and latitude columns. This meant Tableau had to generate them, leading to it creating 150 separate maps, one for each point. This was simple enough though, and I just had to remove the address data from the mapping column. 

    After fixing this and creating one map, it was only plotting about 10 of the points, instead of all of them. This took me a much longer time to troubleshoot, but it ended up being an easy fix. Tableau was grouping the parks together, so I had to manually split the address data into separate city, state, and ZIP data tables. 

    It was also my first time working with Tableau, so the issues I faced took me longer to solve than they should have, since I am still new to the platform and interface. 

     

     

  • Assignment # 1: Data Visualization Analysis

    Recently, I came across this chart. It compares China’s 2025, 2026, and the 10 year average oil imports in millions of barrels per day. After the Strait of Hormuz crisis in March, there was a dramatic decline in their oil imports, cutting over 5.5mb/d (the largest amount any country has ever stopped importing oil!).

    Source: https://www.api.org/energy-insights/charts-analysis/china-crude-imports-have-declined

    I believe this chart was created by a human designer rather than generated by AI. There doesn’t seem to be any obvious logical errors or missing elements, and the chart is based off of real world data. While it is possible that the data was entered into a system and the chart was automatically generated, I believe the underlying data was entered in by a person, and that the chart was either designed, analyzed, or reviewed by a human. It seems more likely to be human created or at least human reviewed rather than fully AI generated.

    I am excited to be a part of this course! I have reviewed the syllabus, and understand the grading system, course structure, and the Visual Peer Review Dashboard process.