Graphs Discussion

[kevinahuber]

With #124 and #122 - I think it would behoove us to think through how the data is shown. As far as I understand, all of the data is a ratio- I would suggest for the main display we switch to percent area charts, with a metric of % change (and color- red if down and green if up) next to each ethnicity in the legend. This allows users to see the data over time in one graph.

[mshenfield]

If it's inline w/ converting the graphs to ReCharts, feel free to change. I like the PercentAreaCharts much more than the pie charts (which I've read somewhere are misleading). A couple other points

• The bar charts in the main page could be simplified to allow users to compare, maybe replacing them and the spark lines with a single PercentAreaCharts
• The explore section invites the user to compare demographics to income data, but there isn't a convenient way to do so (you have to look from one chart to the next).

[mshenfield]

Kevin and I met in person to discuss. Among other things, Kevin had a great idea for a graph displaying one of the more interesting facets of the data - a stacked percentage area graph with income on the x-axis. Here's a (blurry, 😭 ) picture of the graph:

[kevinahuber]

I'll try to make a run at this- I could get help on switching the scape to put data in the format of:

{
   'incomeMin': <int of min income>,
   'incomeMax': <int of max income>,
   'American Indian/Alaskan Native': <# of employees>,
   'Asian or Pacific Islanders': <# of employees>,
    ...etc
}

[mshenfield]

Closing this - going to create a new issue to encapsulate additional graphs/visualizations.