Visualising the right data

[maxgerber]

Hey BounceBack!

I wanted to first say well done for putting in all the time and effort in learning D3 and getting something up so quickly - I'm super impressed by the effort and dedication you've put in over the past few days 😻. I just wanted to make sure that the data you're displaying is both relevant/useful for @kmicheals, and also corresponds to actual data you're collecting:

Employment rate

In regards to the employment chart, I think what you should be displaying is the employment rate of each course compared to one other. This means having seven data points:

• Award in Employability
• Award in Construction Skills (Painting and Decorating)
• Certificate in Construction Skills (Painting and Decorating)
• Certificate in Preparation and Application of Paint Systems
• Diploma in Dry Lining
• Diploma in Scaffolding
• CSCS Card

You should be able to work this out by discovering the percentage of people employed for each course, and plugging these numbers into the doughnut chart.

Comparison between BounceBack and other projects

I think what's important to remember is that you are building an internal tool for BounceBack to measure the success of their different programmes, and not the success of BounceBack compared to other charities. Remember, you're both designing and building this app, so when you create a front-end component, you are committing to building the backend functionality too. In this case, I don't think you have the data to do such a comparison.

Other suggestions for the second Dashboard chart

• Instead, you could visualise the success of each course by comparing the pass rate for each course. This would have the same seven data points of your employment rate doughnut chart (above):

  • Award in Employability
  • Award in Construction Skills (Painting and Decorating)
  • Certificate in Construction Skills (Painting and Decorating)
  • Certificate in Preparation and Application of Paint Systems
  • Diploma in Dry Lining
  • Diploma in Scaffolding
  • CSCS Card

• You could also visualise the success of all the BounceBack courses by comparing their combined enrollment statuses. This would have five data points:

  • Started
  • Dropped
  • Passed
  • Failed
  • Reset (although I'm not 100% sure what this means!)

Individual charts for each course

I know you guys said you wanted to create an interactive dashboard chart which changes on dropdown, which sounds great! However, I still think it would be amazing to have charts on each course page, because not only do I think it would significantly improve the look and usefulness of your app, I also think that collecting that data would help you to create your other dashboard charts!

That's it for now. I would be more than happy to chat further about this with you all at any point.
See you all tomorrow! 🍩 🎉

[kmicheals]

Morning all,

I am not really sure how to use this system. I added another issue #214 in response to this. Hopefully we can discuss later this morning

[ishak52]

Morning Kathryn,
Good to see you on GitHub 😄 ,
Of course, we can discuss anything you want in our meeting today 👍
@kmicheals