We've had lots of exciting things happening with our project in the past few weeks.  It feels like our plans are growing and changing every week, and we're just trying to keep up with it all!  Firstly, I bought a one-year hosting package, so nothing is stopping us from creating a domain for our project except deciding on a name for the website.  Hopefully we'll be able to figure out something soon.
Also, if you've read the last couple posts Ashley has made, you know that we've been having a lot of trouble figuring out how to map out the locations of where people were pulled over.  We decided to reach out to Doug Stiehler, a geographic information systems technician here at OU, to see if he could give us any tips for mapping out the data, and he proved to be a huge help.
We sent him the raw data we had received from the NPD, and when we met with him Thursday he had already mapped out about a third of the data on ArcView, a GIS mapping software.  It was nice to finally be able to visualize some of the data.  We talked about how we could manipulate the data with ArcView, and he showed us a really cool feature where he could select any variable (color of the car, gender of the driver, time of day, etc.) and plot just where those were pulled over.  This adds a whole new aspect to how we can display and manipulate the data on our website.
Although we initially spoke to Mr. Stiehler for tips on how to map the data more efficiently, he turned out to be a very helpful source and has graciously agreed to continue to help us with mapping the locations.  We still have to work through a lot of the data because ArcView is unable to map it due to problems with the data, but we are definitely a lot further along than we were two weeks ago.
When we first started this project, I figured we'd be doing all of the work and figuring everything out on our own.  Everything has been a lot more complicated and time-consuming than we thought it'd be, but we're learning to ask others for help in order to work more efficiently.  Hopefully we can continue to connect with people who can help us make this project be even more versatile than we ever thought it could be.