Annalisa Esposito - Portfolio

In these visualisations, I took into exam High schools within 2km to the Cardiff bus route 1/2, for a Digital Investigation project. This work involved researching a list of all the schools in the city from a reliable source, geo-locating them and finding the ones I could attach to the 1/2 bus route map using Python. After that, I researched and downloaded each individual school's report from Estyn.com and I studied the parameters to use to carry on an evaluation of the schools. I eventually chose: Pupils’ outcome, Quality of the teaching, Care, support and guidance, Leadership and Management. A problem I had to face was that old reports had a ranking 1-4, while the new ones 1-5; I overcame this issue creating a new ranking that could include both. I also had to look up at every single report and manually collect the figures I needed, since all the documents were in a pdf format. To visualise schools’ performances, I had to calculate the average of the 4 criteria. I then used D3 to create the bar graph and I sorted it by descending order. I also provided a tooltip that allows the user to get general information about the school as address, telephone number, head teacher, language and report year. In the end, I wrote an introductive paragraph to give a sort of background to the visualisation and I inserted a table – created with python since there were numerous data – to make my analysis clear and transparent.

I searched and put together information about every single candidate in Cardiff North area: who they are and what they have done so far. I also created three donut pie charts to show past results, these visualisations get smaller and smaller going back in time for a scenic effect. I used a tooltip and a legend inside the chart (which saves space on the page) to provide readers with further information such as percentage, candidates’ names and respectively party.

This was for a coursework as well, and it was the first time I used APIs. Being a music lover, I decided to use three different APIs for this project which are Spotify, Band in Town and Google Maps. My intend was to create a discovery voyage of new music and potential gigs, for possible music lover users like me. Everything starts by searching for an artist and the research can take you straight to interact with a map and looking for a particular venue.

Back in November, after only a month coding, I was asked to create my first website. The webpage is very simple, generated just using html and css. Although it does not have elaborated features on dispay, I decided it deserves a spot in here being my first attempt in coding.