2017-2018 pet licenses (from Seattle’s Animal Center via Seattle Open Data program)
2015-2016 pet licenses (from Seattle’s Animal Center via Kaggle)
General info on pet licensing in Seattle
Images for each dog species
Additional data notes
Early explorations
Suggested storylines based on exploration of data:
Context and Key Findings from Research
Key Facts: Shelter and Pet Adoption
Context
Key Event Timeline
Adopting
From the Seattle Shelter:
How can I adopt a pet?
Before You Adopt
Lifestyle
Breed and gender
8 Steps to Adoption
From the ASPCA
Puppy Mills 101
The Hallmarks of Cruel Breeding
How Cruel Breeding Hurts Dogs
The Puppy Pipeline
How to Avoid Cruelty
Take Action
Licensing
New online pet licensing portal
Why license your pet?
Off-Leash Areas
Improvements
If we have time we could map these off-leash areas using the address info here: https://www.seattle.gov/parks/find/dog-off-leash-areas#geneseeparkoffleasharea
Design evolution
Initial sketches of charts addressing original questions
Initial sketches of charts addressing original questions
Evolution of visualization and design decisions: Some visualizations were new; some are descendants of the earlier sketches
General registrations line chart
General registrations block calendar
Zip code-based choropleth map
Top dog names bar chart
Top dog breeds image grid with line charts
Leaflet map of pet-adoption centers in Seattle
Implementation
General registrations line chart
Intent
Functionality
General registrations block calendar
Intent
Functionality
Zip code-based choropleth map
Intent
Functionality
Top dog names bar chart
Intent
Functionality
Top dog breeds image grid with line charts
Intent
Functionality
Leaflet map of pet-adoption centers in Seattle
Intent
Functionality
Evaluation
Detailed Project Plan
Names of all students who have actively worked on the project plan
Definition of goals and tasks of the final project
Introduction and data description
Overall interest
Goals
Tasks
A description of your data and where you will get the data from (at least concrete ideas on where to acquire the data)
At least 3 sketches of visualization ideas for your project
A sketch of an interaction storyboard
A sketch of your website layout
A project timeline (with milestones when you are planning to finish which feature)
Proposed feature list
Must have
Good to have
Optional
A description of team roles
Slides for a 3 minute presentation
APPENDIX includes nitty-gritty process documentation and discussion and selected miscellania
Early version of site, aka Prototype Version 1 (Discussion and steps towards Version 2 and beyond are below screenshots.)
Discussion of PV1 and thoughts/concerns/action items for PV2
Storyline discussion and voting
Brittany’s suggestions
Adam’s suggestions
Marcia’s suggestions (“basic explorations with interesting sidebars”)
Javier’s suggestions
STORYLINE Discussion
Our preliminary sketches are included earlier in this book; here is how we voted on the sketches.