Exhibit of Chicago ACT scores

This is an example of how the Exhibit framework can be used to visualize the information from this Chicago Tribune story about college readiness. It offers an interactive table similar to that at the Tribune, but also demonstrates a range of visualizations, such as maps, lists, and scatter plots. It also offers faceted browsing, a useful way to filter the data in order to understand patterns. I haven't bothered to make it "pretty", but the functionality should be clear.

Exhibits are created by editing html. You specify elements as special tags in your html, and our javascript library interprets them. There's no server-side infrastructure, so you can do anything you want with the html. The data can be read from an accompanying file or, as in this case, fed directly from a google spreadsheet (although google is a little slow serving up a spreadsheet as large as this one). I would have used your spreadsheet directly, but I needed to (i) geocode for the map, (ii) take away the percent signs from the numbers so I could use the numbers in the slider facet and color coding and (iii) rename some of the column headers---exhibit doesn't like spaces in the names.

I'm using some of the newer features from the pre-release "trunk" of exhibit, which may have some bugs, but the main codebase has been used by over a thousands sites over the past few years, and can be considered reasonably reliable. Here are some examples from other newspapers using Exhibit:

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Reading English Math Science
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Overall: %
Reading: %
Math: %
Science: %
English: %
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