Within the music education world, nothing quite solidifies a budding artist’s performance better than an All-State seat. It’s an obsessive goal that opens many doors for future performance opportunities and talent development. It should also be known that these performers are usually very intellectually focused as well.
This series of charts examines the Texas All-State ensembles and their average performance on the SAT within the last fifteen (15) years. Each charting tool we have covered has been used, although for the sake of readability, not all ensembles are included in the charts prepared.
For these charts, I wanted very simple presentations. These are All-State performers, but this data is test scores, a very black-and-white issue. Line charts seemed to be the best method, and it illustrates the improvement of the scores over time. Charts.js and Highcharts seemed to be the best tools for this. Google’s API and Fusion Tables were a little bothersome getting “straight to the point” with their setup. The first two also were more design-friendly. For “black-and-white” data, this aspect helped not make the charts entirely boring. I think the decision of which tool is based on whether or not the data can stand for itself as interesting.
Link: http://www.justinkjoe.com/chart-data-project.html