Assignment 5

I have been exploring the use of visualization in terms of processing data. It has been very interesting, however not all of the visualizations make sense in terms of their artistic representations. There was however some that I did find somewhat helpful in determining the graphical representation, like frequently occuring surnames found in the 2000 census. A picture is shown below.

In this visualization, each surname is given a bubble, depending on the amount of times the name was found determines the size of the bubble. This is one of the more easily understood visualization to understand.

One of the other visualizations I found was the one that indicated the average home price index in the S&P out of 14 different states between 1998 and 2008, which is pictured below.

Some of the data that I inputed were the Governator's favor rates by quarter. This information was pulled by swivel.com