{"id":32689,"date":"2022-05-10T23:38:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T03:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/?p=32689"},"modified":"2022-05-24T19:25:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T23:25:38","slug":"final-report-pokedex-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/visualization\/final-report-pokedex-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Report: Makeshift Pok\u00e9dex Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pok\u00e9mon is anime and gaming franchise that was started on the 2nd of February in 1996, and since it’s inception the franchise has been unstoppable with over 120 games, almost 1200 anime episodes, and many other features for it toys, manga, and trading cards portions. The basic premise of Pok\u00e9mon takes place in world where there are creatures called Pok\u00e9mon that have amazing abilities, and where humans team up with Pok\u00e9mon to train against and battle others. For my final project I took a small portion of this world to make an interaction dashboard in Tableau Public; additionally, I conduction user research to help build and refine my project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, I started this project with the following goals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Learn more about how users interact with the Pok\u00e9mon franchise<\/li>
  2. Design an informative and interactive dashboard that would be engaging to Pok\u00e9mon fans<\/li>
  3. Teach those not as familiar with Pok\u00e9mon about some basic properties of the world of Pok\u00e9mon<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Inspiration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    There are multiple sources inspiration behind this final project, the first being my own love for the franchise. Since about the age of 6, I’ve been an avid Pok\u00e9mon fan having watched a lot of the original series, and played most of the main games for the Nintendo systems. So, this was definitely a project I was rather excited and knowledgeable about. Within the Pok\u00e9mon franchise there is a device known as a Pok\u00e9dex which indexes and provides information about all Pok\u00e9mon known to the series, I decided to make my own Pok\u00e9dex that could be used for someone looking to learn more about the various battle stats associated with every Pok\u00e9mon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    One other source of inspiration would be my network graph from lab 3<\/a>. In this lab I explored visualizing different top anime organized in a network by how related each one was to one another. This lab as well as the feedback on my network led me to think more about anime, Pok\u00e9mon, and data visualization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Materials<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    User Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    To conduct my user research, I decided to do semistructured interviews and monitored users while browsing the Tableau dashboard. I recruited 2 participants for the my research that were members of a Pok\u00e9monGo group I discovered through mutual friends. We were able to meet on Zoom so I could remotely monitor the participants’ experience with my final project. During the Zoom call, I took notes based on areas where I noticed someone struggling and feedback I received during and after the session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Data and Visualization<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    My final project uses two different data sets both found on Kaggle. One features all the stat information for each Pok\u00e9mon and can be found here<\/a>. The other is used as the source for the pictures in the Pok\u00e9mon graph on the first dashboard and was found here<\/a>. To organize and structure my data I used Microsoft Excel, and, lastly, to piece everything together and create my final project I used Tableau Public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Methodology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    User Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Utilizing a semistructured interview format, I was able to guide my user research session while also allowing more input from my participants. I conducted both of my user interviews during a mid fidelity version of my interactive dashboard. I started building my dashboard based on my own assumptions with only a few stats and interactive elements, but before adding I wanted to get user feedback to make sure I was on the right track. My user interviews consisted of pre-study questions before viewing Tableau, discussion during viewing, and post-study questions. I used the following format to conduct my study:<\/p>\n\n\n\n