Talent Lab:Superheroes

DATA: What is the Data

The data for visualization is the attributes of different superheroes from the DC and Marvel universe. The attributes that are shown is the number of appearances, intelligence, strength, speed, durability, power, combat, good or bad, and a description of the superhero. It also have information there superheroes real name, publisher, creator, gender, and character type. The meat of the information that is provided is their attributes. It what is used to manipulate the graphs in the different views.

DATA: Where did the Data come from

The data that they used for this application came from the superheroes database and from the web. There no information how they collected the data from this site or the web.

Critque:The Good about the Visualization

Talent-lab’s superheroes visualization gives you plenty of different way to visualize data to make comparison about different superheroes. I like that they give you the options to look at data as a table, bar chart, cluster chart, scatter chart, or as talent target. The choices in terms of how you can look at data was a good choice that they made in making the visualization.

The menu that they made for the application make it intuitive to navigate between the different options for the visualization.First time users can easily click on the menu options that they want to use and select the data they want to look at. The menu is also responsive and instantly shows you the data that you want to see.

They also added in a search bar which allows you to type in name of a superheroes and it will actually show you where they are located within the visualization. You can just type in a heroes name and see how they are compared to other heroes. Then it will also pull up the profile for you to see that superheroes information. In the search bar you also enter more than one name to make a comparison against other superheroes. It will highlight their information and where they are compared to the others that where selected.

For each chart in the visualization the authors give you different ways to manipulate the data. With the tools they give a user, they can change the visualization base upon what attribute they want know about from the group of superheores.

I like with the bar charts that they gave you a couple of different options to compare superheroes. They gave the option to use two attributes as way to order the superheroes on the chart. A user can also rank the superheroes base upon gender,character type, good or bad, or apperance.

With the cluster chart I like that you can cluster superhero data base upon character type, gender, or Good or Bad. It will also allow you to cluster as a whole or individual and look at how many would fit into certain attributes such as combat, Intelligence, speed, or many other attributes.

Talent Target chart gave the best possible view of the data since it allows you add multiple targets to see how closely a hero would fit into certain category. This provide wealth of information once add the other fields such as sector by, color by, and size by. You can easy compare each individual superhero to each other. This is the best chart in the entire visualization compared to the other ones.

The color choices that made for visualization makes it very easy to see information about a superhero. They allow you filter color base upon severally different factors such as character Type, Gender, and Good or Bad. The color choices that made make easy to see how that information relates to the rest of the visualization.

Critque: The Bad about the visualization

There are couple of things that could be improved in this visualization that would make it better. Overall visualization does a good job at seeing how other superheroes relate to each other. It allows you make comparison of different hero’s base on their attributes.

One of things that could of have been better in visualization is if they allowed you to select heroes directly from the graph. It is good that you could search for multiply heroes at once but it would of been a good features to be able select them directly from the visualization.

When you do search superheroes name, it suppose show a label with the heroes name next to it location on the graph. On some graph it does show the correct location but on other ones it way off or close but not directly on heroes location.

There where couple of graphs in which it was hard to see the information because it was either too small or colors sort of blended in together. If the information was a tad bit bigger it would make it easier to read the information on the screen. Another problem I would point out too is that colors would not work with someone who is color blind that wanted to check the visualization. In particular there is one graph that felt information could be bigger and that would be the scatter plot graph.