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So, I’ve been interested lately in trying to create some visualizations, specifically to hang in the front of the ILC’s offices here in the Tulane’s library. After spending some time wandering through Tulane’s website, I found some data to play with. The problem is that the data has already really been parsed, so the questions have already been asked and answered. There’s no way to cross-reference data, for instance.

I’m starting to ask around though and have some promising leads to more granular/raw data that might prove more interesting. In the meantime, I went ahead and created the map above. It shows geographically where the freshman class of 2008 came from. I’m not really satisfied with it, but I think it works as a proof of concept. I think being able to unroll a poster in front of someone might show them the concreteness of the project. We’ll see…

In the mean time, tell me what you think of this poster. And let me know what kind of questions you’d like to ask of student population data. I’ll try to post a picture of the poster itself soon….if I can remember to bring in my camera…

/der