1. TAG Milestone 2
IT 4983
Bailey Scent, Jacob Elder, Jonathan Perrin, Matthew
Chaney
9/20/2016
2. Project Progress
Research Report/Recommendation - Tableau recommended, draft being written (In
Progress)
Actual Solution - Interactive charts published to the web (In Progress)
Solution has 3 dashboards, 20 charts each - Will have more charts and a
dashboards next milestone (In Progress)
Sample Data - Scope defined, data being gathered (In Progress)
3. Milestone Assessment
● Finalize list of desired functionalities (Complete)
● Evaluate Tableau against list of functionalities (In Progress)
● Create interactive charts w/Tableau (Complete)
● Draft recommendation report (In Progress)
4. Lessons Learned
How to compensate when team members are out of contact
How to deal with technical problems
Scope Definition
5. Finalize List of Desired Functionalities
1. Visualization forms
a. Common type of charts like bar, line, pie
b. Use the map view to visualize geo-region related data
c. Formatted data table view with conditional formatting
2. Interaction (from both developer and public user perspective)
a. Filters/slicers: selection of city, year, metric
b. Drill down
c. Highlight
d. Show/hide data serials or data points
e. Hover/click for more details
f. Style (color) change
3. Dashboard
a. Group charts by theme and design layout
b. Use common settings, slicers, and choices that affect all relevant
charts/tables
on the same dashboard
4. Publishing
a. The solution (either chart or dashboard) needs to viewed and used by
public
users through a website (independent or embedded)
b. Test mobile friendliness
c. Generate static versions of all or selected visualizations (image, PDF,
report,
etc.)
7. Charts and Functionalities (Tech Employment)
Total Technology Employment for Georgia and Atlanta
Other Metro Area’s not calculated by TAG
Nothing need for searching or Filtering
Straightforward bar graphs
Interactive Chart showing top 10 jobs in 5 metro areas
in GA. Allows for filtering by Year/City
8. Charts and Functionalities (Tech Wages)
Interactive chart showing Average Median if wages paid for top 10 tech based
jobs in 5 Metro Area’s
Filtering by city and year
