What's in Your Night-time Sky?
- Steve Martin
Purpose
To create an infographic of all 88 IUA constellations, and to include the dark-cloud constellations too
The plan is to have several parameters:
A -180 to +180 slider set to 0 to represent the compass, switch the degrees to names
A month selector, this shall instead lighten/darken constellations that a viewable on a clear night from your locations
Northern/Southern hemisphere switch
The ability to switch between constellation or dark-cloud - this will probably be a window switch as the constellations shall be painted on an inky-blue background, where the dark-cloud formations might be better represented on a light background
The dashboard might benefit from an altered Datawonders logo set painted in grey hues to sit on a dark background
Layout / Wireframe
The plan is to draw each constellation side-by side on a horizontal plane, that moves in line with the compass slider something similar to Skyrim’s character build screen. Users must be able to select a constellation to learn more:
A large scope box beneath the main constellation belt will re-compose to the selected constellation.
It will be great to make use of Tableau’s animation function here to re-arrange the points on selection
Two more panels are to be included:
One beneath the central scope to provide a description of the constellation, possibly including an image of exactly what constellation represents
A slide-in section to the right on a show/hide button to provide quick-data such as discovery date, discoverer, antiquity etc
Project Title | What’s in Your Night-Time Sky? |
Working Title | None |
Font | Headings: Georgia |
Type (Report / App) | Single-page dashboard |
Audience | Any interested party |
Publish Location | Publicly Accessible (Tableau Public) |
Data Compression Level (Grain) | None |
Purpose | Infographic for the recognised constellations and dark-cloud formation |
Data Source(s) | Manually produced |
Data refresh times | None: One-off report |
Data Connection | Embedded |
Interactivity | Fully interactive |
Project Status | Planning |
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Project Delivery Date |
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In Scope:
Section | Tasks |
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Page 1: Constellations Page 2: (secret) Dark-cloud | Introduction and explanations All constellations drawn and joined by their point, the data will need a path descriptor to enable Tableau to draw then line, and a group identifier to prevent Tableau from attempting to join the constellations Central scope, need to work-out how to animate points as they change for each constellation selection (this has been done before see Titanic - a Great loss of life by Simon Rowe) The lower description box The slide-in info panel Redesign the Datawonders logos to sit on a dark screen: the current logo being formed of primary colours might look just as great Compass slider parameter Calendar month selector - be nice to use a grid Dashboard background to be inky-blue Ensure row and column separators are selected to help separate the constellations The month selector isn’t a filter: it colours the constellations from dark-grey to light-grey based on their known luminosity for the time of year Dashboard selector: discretely switches between the constellations and dark-cloud formations |