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Final Project: Why & how to choose a Porsche 911?

Outline

Summary

When we talk about exotic sports cars, what comes to your mind first? Is that a Lamboghini or Ferrari? There are many classic cars highly praised by auto fans around the world, but there is one name that stamps in peoples’ mind - Porsche 911. In this project, I will spark your interest by going over the history of 911 and, more importantly, show you how to select your own Porsche 911.

Project Structure

Why Porsche 911 is a Great choice?
In this section, I will go over a variety of aspects and show why 911 is a great choice in terms of commute and fun. Also, I will mention Porsche 911 is one of the best choice to get joy with relatively low cost. To push a little bit further, a sales data is displayed to show Porsche is losing money on researching 911 and tring its best to keep the legend alive.

Revolution of Porsche 911 2023 is the 60th aniversary of Porsche 911. I will go over how 911 evolved in its 8 different generations. A brief comparison will be given to show how each generation looks like and how it performs.

Current Porsche 911 Models This part talks about all available 911 models in US market right now. I will talk about the major differences between each model, including performance, appearances, and prices. Finally, a recommendation will be given as all CMU graduate students are potential buyers.

Initial sketches

The following picture gives a high level description of what type of graph will be used in which section. 1707848981381

The data

| Name | URL | Description | |——|—–|————-| |Porsche 911 History | https://www.porsche.com/stories/innovation/a-brief-history-of-the-porsche-911 | It contains car specs of past 911 models, such as time periods, weight, height, performance etc. | |Doug Score | https://www.dougdemuro.com/dougscore | Car scores given by a famous car-review Youtuber; I will use this to show cost-value efficiency and overall rating of 911 compared to other exotic cars | |Porsche 911 Models |https://www.porsche.com/usa/models/911/911-models/ | It contains all Porsche 911 models for sale in USA right now; manual data parsing is required to collect performance data | |Car Data | https://deepvisualmarketing.github.io/| It has car specs and sales data in the past 30 years | |Fuel Efficiency| https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/ws/index.shtml| It contains fuel economy data from the government; some metrics like average fuel consumption will be derived from here|

Method and medium

The following tools will be used:

  1. Canva & Shorthand - Presentation & Story Telling
  2. Flourish Studio - A visualization tool recommended by a previous TSWD student
  3. AI Tools, e.g.ChatGPT - Some type of graphs may be tricky to generate, e.g. Radar, using an AI may help here
  4. Tableau - the primary tool that will be used to create data viz