PURPOSE
The purpose of this analysis is to improve Dana's webpage. The improvement includes providing an in-depth analysis of UFO sightings by allowing users to filter for multiple criteria at the same time. Table filters includes: date, city, state, country, and shape.
RESULTS
A visitor of this new webpage would have various options to read more about the UFO sightings provided in the filter table including date, city, state, country, and shape as shown in the image below.
Open the file containing UFO_1.
Close the file.
As shown in the image above, visitors of the webpage will be able to see the duration time of how long the UFO appeared in sight. There is a comments section providing comments from viewers who were in attendance of the UFO sighting. Also, there is text automatically shown in the filter search boxes. For instance, "1/10/2010" is automatically in 'Enter Date' filter search box, and "benton" is automatically in 'Enter City' filter search box.
To find information about the UFO sightings in the search critera, the visitor of the webpage will enter a date, city, state, country, or shape that is included in the filter table. For instance type in "1/7/2010" in the 'Enter Date' filter search line, and all UFO sighting information for the date of 1/7/2010 will appear.
Open the file containing UFO_date.
Close the file.
To find information about a city with UFO sightings, type in "san diego" in the 'Enter City' filter search line, and all UFO sighting information for the city of San Diego will appear.
Open the file containing UFO_city.
Close the file.
To find information about a state with UFO sightings, type in "ny" in the 'Enter State' filter search line, and all UFO sighting information for the state of New York will appear.
Open the file containing UFO_state.
Close the file.
To find information about a country with UFO sightings, type in "us" in the 'Enter Country' filter search line, and all UFO sighting information for the United States of America will appear.
Open the file containing UFO_country.
Close the file.
To find information about the shape of a UFO during the UFO sightings, type in "light" in the 'Enter Shape' filter search line, and all UFO sighting information for the shape of "light" will appear.
Open the file containing UFO_shape.
Close the file.
To find information about a specific location with UFO sightings, type in the informaton in the filter search line, and all UFO sighting information for the location will appear. In addition, the location may have more than one row in the filter table.
Open the file containing UFO_all.
Close the file.
DRAWBACK
One drawback of this webpage is that the filter table does not provide information for the time of day (i.e. morning, afternoon, night). If there was information for "Time of Day", then viewers of this webpage would be able to conclude that UFO's are expected to appear mostly in the morning, afternoon, or night.
RECOMMENTATIONS
The first recommendation for further development is to provide a section on the webpage for viewers to report their own experience of a UFO sighting. This report will provide an update to the data of UFO sighting.
The second recommendation for further development is to provide accessibility to visitors of this webpage for enlarging the screen. There are visitors of this website who cannot zoom in or out of the webpage from their device.