Making a map was not as difficult as I thought it would be. Google Maps does a great job at giving step-by-step instructions on creating a map. Some parts were tricky, such as creating a new road direction. However, after a few minutes I got the hang of it.

I made a map of the route I take to come to school from my house. The total distance is about 50 miles, and I provided six steps to making the trip. Here’s my map:

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For the chart, I just messed around and played with the site. I simply used random data points and random tags for each axis. Maybe I’ll conduct some research on a subject and create a chart with meaningful data. For now, I’m just testing the waters. I used the dimensions suggested by Professor Cohen (480×320). I really enjoyed being able to see both the text coding representation of the graph and the image of the graph itself. The live updates were useful in showing me what I was doing to the chart. Here’s what it looks like:

The y axis represents time in minutes. Each of the sets at the bottom represent the day of the week.