I actually came up with this idea when walking around the cemetery behind the school: birth/death/life expectancy in Rochester for the past 100 years or so. Color coding and grouping, mixed with bar graphs of sorts (without graph lying) would probably be the best way to do this. I actually thought about this because I, strangely enough, so a lot of headstones from people born in the 1800s that were 80-90 when they died, and I started thinking about the industrial revolution and how the start of Kodak and Bausch and Lomb and other large companies in the area polluting the water source might have effected the overall health of the area. The ability to group by year, gender, socio-economic level, as well as using color coding to seperate one bar from another would be a good way to group. I think also having a fish-eye style ability would help in keeping the overall level of detail low enough to see it all at once, but allowing the user to huver over a certain date/economic level/etc would bring up more information. It will of course have more user control than I have shown here, like a scroll bar, and smaller lines/text that will be expanded upon when scrolled over. This is just for a basic feel of how it might work.
-Sean Lander
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