The sidebar shows each individual report grouped by newspaper.

This makes me think, should the XML file not look like this:

<reports>
  <report>Newspaper 1 - 2011</report>
  <report>Newspaper 2 - 2011</report>
  <report>Newspaper 1 - 2007</report>
  <report>Newspaper 2 - 2007</report>
</reports>

But rather look like this:

<newspapers>
  <newspaper>
    <name>Newspaper 1</name>
    <reports>
      <report>2011</report>
      <report>2007</report>
    </reports>
  </newspaper>
  <newspaper>
    <name>Newspaper 2</name>
    <reports>
      <report>2011</report>
      <report>2007</report>
    </reports>
  </newspaper>
</newspapers>

The sidebar shows each individual report grouped by newspaper.

This makes me think, should the XML file not look like this:

But rather look like this:

Todo List

• Import National Data
• Complete Interface
  • Header Art - Assigned to @Charlex
  • Filters - We need to decide on potential filters
  • Sidebar (shown only when a polygon is clicked) - Assigned to @maria
  • Demographics Footer
• Generate XML file using PHP
  • Send filters using AJAX to the PHP file to update XML
• Setup ITS Server - Assigned to @ali
  • Apache
  • PHP 5 - (Should we bump up the memory in the php.ini?)
  • MySQl
  • Setup Users
• Implement 2nd API
• Attend to legal aspects
  • Email Lawyers - Assigned to @ali
  • Meet with Lawyers
• Create Design Doc - Assigned to @borno
• Go over JS line by line
• Look into Subversion/Git
• Meet with team to talk about Git

Default View

When a user arrives on the page, I think that the most recent 2011 data should be shown and it should be a macro state by state (not a micro zip code by zip code) representation.

Year

When more than one year is selected, the slope should be calculated.

Should it be 2007/2011, or should it be 2003/2004/2005/2006/2007/2008/2009/2010/2011?

State

NC/NY/CA/TX/etc. - Only one at a time can be loaded.

When the user moves the map by zooming or panning, I would like a button to appear asking if they would like to load the state in the middle-most point of the view. Also, if a user clicks on the state, it should start to load.

Publication

List of publications (NYTimes/Ithaca Journal/Ithaca Times/Wall Street Journal/etc)

Circulation Type

Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday/Saturday/Sunday/CombinedDailyAverage.

Weight

Weight by distance from zip code to newspaper/Weight by population/No weight