Saturday, 25 April 2015

Blog #2


Lets look at the income data and see how the dashboard helps us to anylasis this data in dept. By using the dashboard it helps express data more clearly, and makes it easy to retrieve and grain information.

These following are the five questions that show how using the dashboard and visualizations help us to express the data in everyday life.

Graph #1
1)Which county has the most number of tax returns?
    Attribution and Metrics: County and number of returns.
Visaulization – Vertical Bar – Clustered


Reason: We choose this graph was because it clearly helps us display the information easily. We horizontal axis displays the county names and the vertical axis displays the number of returns. In the graph we can clearly see that California has the highest tax return.



Graph #2
2)Which county has the low income?
Attribution and Metrics: Country and wages and salaries income.
Visualization: Vertical line – Stacked


Reason: Reason I choose this graph was because it beautifully shows the fluctuation on the graph. It is also simple and easy to understand. The horizontal axis has the wages and salaries income and the vertical axis has the county names. The results was that Atchison County had the lowest wages and salaries.





Graph #3
3) Which county code has the most interest received?
    Attribution and Metrics: Interest received and country postal code.
Visualization: Vertical Area – Absolute 



Reason: This graph is virtually great and effective for this data. The horizontal axis has the interest received and the vertical axis has the county postal code. The result is that code 3 has the most interest received.





Graph #4
4) How does the gross income relate to the adjusted gross income?
   Attribution and Metrics: Gross income and adjusted gross income.
 Visualization: Heat map




Reason: The heat map shows the highest and lowest percentages. The heat map is easy to understand. The colours make the data standout and it also does the ranking. Higher percentages are green and lower percentages are red.




Graph #5
5) What county has the most number of exemptions by their county FIBS CODE?
    Attribution and Metrics: Number of exemptions and FIBS code