Amanda Levy's Finalized Project 1 Plan

Project Goal

• Collaboratively Visualize the Progression of Female Participation in the Olympics Over the Past 120 years

Research Questions

• What is the change in female participation over the past 120 years broken down by area of the world and then, even more zoomed in, by country?

• How has the change in female participation evolved over the past 120 years for each sport?

Motivation

• The dataset and its importance has been recognized, but scientists are struggling to effectively compare different breakdowns of the data. The dataset's scope is so large (the number of years, countries, and sports) that it is difficult to quickly see all of the comparison cases. As I found on Immersion Analytics' website, "Scientific research confirms that immersive technologies enable you to absorb 3 times as many data points as you presently can using flat screen technology." Therefore, I think that presenting and analyzing this information in VR will be immensely beneficial.

• News and research about the dataset:

  • https://theworld.org/stories/2016-08-17/see-120-years-struggle-gender-equality-olympics

  • https://towardsdatascience.com/120-years-of-olympic-games-56411bc4bd53

  • https://olymvis.hongtaoh.com/paper/

Milestones

• 2/15

  • Virtualitics is downloaded, and I have a basic understanding of the software and its capabilities 

• 2/17

  • the dataset has been exported from Kraggle to Virtualitics

• 2/24

  • have a visual representation of how the percentage of women competitors has changed over the years 

• 3/01

  • have a more detailed visual representation of how the percentage of women competitors has changed over the year by area of the world and then by country

• 3/03

  • finalized and executed (on that date) the class activity (see below for details)

• 3/08

  • have a different perspective of the visual representation  of how the percentage of women competitors has changed over the years by having a sport comparison

• 3/10

  • a page under the Virtualitics page in the Wiki with this example of a virtual museum layout of the graphs and charts depicting female participation over the years in the Olympics. 

  • a confirmation that  the Virtualitics commentary on the Wiki is consistent with my experience

  • special exhibit in the virtual museum that features collaboration takeaways from class activity

Class Activity

• I'm going to split the class into 7 regions of the world and have each group use VR to explore the museum presentations for their region. After 20 minutes of exploration, I am going to have each group share their favorite graphs/charts that sparked discussion between the group or would prompt a discussion with another region of the world. After each group shares, we will discuss any thoughts about the compilation of each groups' graphs/charts. After the class, I  will copy all of the graphs/charts mentioned by each group and place them into a special exhibit that is meant to spark discussion. The exhibit is meant to be used in the future for classes to once again be split into regions of the world and visit this room each with a focus on how their region is represented and relates to the other regions. The exhibit is set up such that the groups are all looking at the same room and can discuss together this compilation of graphs/charts from their assigned regions.