P5 Visualization on Play Store... first attempts!

In my last posts I made some description of my dataset as well as I include the sketches which resulted from a divergence convergence process of visualizations. From now on we start to focus on the materialization of those ideas through the implementation of those visualizations on P5, a javascript environment, where we will keep exploring the best way to visualize the Play Store data.

The best ranked sketch from the previous process related Size of the Files against the Rating of the apps, this is what I implemented in P5, using also some interactive features that enable the user to filter the points on the plot depending the last update date from May 2010 to August 2018. In addition, this relation is showed in separated boxes depending of the category '#Installs'. This variable is not continuous in our dataset so I decided to show it in bins (it's worth to mention that the width of these bins is not equal). Some other features I iplemented, but which probably shuld be improved or corrected is the use of colors to recognize free from paid apps, and the KeyIsPressed function to show the average value of Rating (press r) and Size (press S) for each bin (Notice that the information currently displayed for this feature is not real, they are still in a developing status)

From this point, I still plan to introduce some improvements as well as to correct the current features it already has. Among the possible next steps we have:

· Use an interaction feature (probably moussePressed) to show a different display of the information. For example, showing the same data but without the bins in the x-axis.

· Include size and color of circles to show more data

· Improve the speed of refresh of the visualization

· Loook how to include some calculations as count or mean on p5