The PeopleHannah Lau ([email protected])Hannah is a 1st year computer science major at Georgia Tech. Her favorite type of music is kpop and she takes the word "chunking" very seriously.
Andrew MajorasAndrew is a 2nd year Aerospace Engineering major at Georgia Tech. He is currently watching Parks and Recreation, currently reading Calculus: One and Several Variables, and currently listening to Smashing Pumpkins.
Anthony MelattiAnthony is a 1st year Biomedical Engineering student at Georgia Tech. Apart from enjoying long walks on the beach (Tampa, FL native), he likes to write lengthy papers that usually include dozens of metaphors.
Maria SamuelMaria Samuel is a first year Industrial Engineer. In addition to hip hop dancing and singing opera, she enjoys writing fun and intriguing blog posts.
Julia WayneJulia is a first year Chemical Engineering major at Georgia Tech. She traveled all of 30 min from home to attend this institution and finds it a very challenging school. She loves running and has been known to eat ice cream for breakfast.
| The IdeaOriginally, when examining Saturday, we noticed two prevalent themes: happiness and power. We also thought that it would be interesting to track Henry's stress levels in the book, and see if there was a correlation between how stressed Henry was and how well any particular situation he was in turned out. It was the synthesis of these two ideas that ultimately led to this website and this map.
After realizing that there was something to the idea that happiness was related to Henry's feeling of control, we then decided that we could apply use a happiness and power meter to track the two. Naturally, that led to determining whether there even was a correlation between the two - thus the graph was born. However, a graph appeals to a very select audience (the word "Excel", for instance, makes some people cringe). Aside from that, graphs aren't very visually appealing; so, to make our point, we created a Prezi with the events Henry felt in control of on one side, and events he wasn't in control of on the other.
Having two separate electronic artifacts naturally led to the creation of a website to contain them. Using the medium of a website, we could chunk things together easily to imply correlation of ideas, and we had a platform on which we could both host our map and explain it at the same time. Another benefit of using a website is that the user can control what they wish to view at any time, allowing greater depth of explanation - because of a website's parallel format (as opposed to a book's linear format), the user can simply skip parts that they aren't really interested in.
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