gsaluta
W1156284

The AT&T Network

By Gabriel Saluta

Description:
This project will show how people are connected throughout the United States of America by the AT&T wireless network. The data comes from another project??? by MIT. It will be a map of the USA split by counties and states and will show the density of users. Additionally it will show which counties have a more dense population and other information that will effect the number of users, ie avg age.

Goals

1. Show the number of users of the AT&T network across the USA
2. Have and accurate map of the USA split into counties properly.
3. Make the map simple and easy to use with few directions if any.

Implementation:
First, an accurate map of the united states must be rendered. There will be buttons to toggle different options like population, state and county boundaries, elevation, avg age of the general population, etc.

Second, the number of users will be added to the boundaries. The information found shows the number of people texting and calling in counties across the USA so laying it over other data will show how all the data interacts.

Third, the visualization itself has to be interesting, so coding in different effects for lines and even changing between data will have to be more than just regular. Glowing lines for the map and falling points while changing between data will be implemented.

Timeline

1. Map and boundaries: 2/10/12
2. Put research into readable files for the project: 2/15/12
3. Data Reading Class: 2/17/12
4. Data Rendering Class: 2/24/12
5. GUI: 3/2/12
6. Glowing lines and boundaries:3/9/12
7. Final touch-ups: 3/19/12