Snooping Assignment
Flowing Data- Convergence of Miss Korea faces
- Coaches are highest paid public employees
- Ratings of TV shows over time
- An exploration of recurring jokes on Arrested Development
- Map of live Wikipedia changes
- Geography of hate against gays, races, and the disabled
- Data Points: Sample chapter
- Cicada insects out to play after 17 years
- Exploration of how much geography is needed in metro maps
- Putting today into perspective
- Information Aesthetics
- Words & Votes: The Changing Congressional Opinions on Gun Violence
- How Half a Second of High Frequency Stock Trading Looks Like
- Mapping the Pavement Quality of Streets in L.A.
- YouTube Trends Map: Explore the Most Popular Videos by Location
- Bolides: Explore the Eye-Witnessed Meteorites that Collided with Earth
- Where is the King? Live Crowd Visualization of Amsterdam
- Here is Today: Comparing One Day to One Eon
- Connected China: Explaining the Players and Networks within China
- Chesapeake Bay Grasses: Tracking Underwater Vegetation over Time
- TweetMap ALPHA: Querying a Massive Amount of Tweets on a Map
- Cool Infographics
- The Obama Energy Agenda: Gas Prices 2013
- Common Causes of Tummy Aches in Children
- The Stephen King Universe
- John Pring - What Makes an Infographic Cool?
- Bike To Work Week
- Is Elon Musk The Real Life Tony Stark?
- Shark Attack!
- Tiago Veloso - What Makes an Infographic Cool?
- Visualizing the School of Design
- The Foursquare Visualizer
hi sharyn, took me a minute to figure out the arrows, i think the colour works better than the arrows themseleves. i also like how you’ve used the colour again in the boxes and broken down the items to make assumptions.
Thanks for the comment Ruth…yeh i can see what you mean about the arrows, I had kind of thought this myself and wondered if people would get it! I’ll bear in mind what you’ve said for next time.
Hi Sharyn,
Way to go to get such a nice insight with just one receipt! It is very clear how you connected the dots by the diagram to get to the conclusion.
I would probably reconsider the layout of the top half as information is repeated. You could group the items under each category which would also erase the need for color-coding.
Thanks John, initially i was wondering what i could do with 1 recepit but once i broke it down i was able to see a pattern. I had made assumptions about you before i knew whose receipt it was and think i was kind of right…so that was interesting. I also thought that the information I gave was repeated and realise now that i could have condensed it but it started to look good visually so i left it in. Less is more and has been noted!
Sharyn,
Apart from the yellow font, I think the styling and design of this slide is very engaging. However, I do sometimes get a bit confused by the overwhelming amount of information. It seems that the first set of data and the second set contain similar information. I also have a difficult time knowing which direction I am supposed to look. Much of the data moves left to right and up to down. However, the arrows seem to go against this pattern.
Hi Zach,
I can see what you mean about the yellow, it perhaps doesn’t work quite as well…noted! I did wonder if people would get what i was trying to say and agree there is perhaps too much info but as i said to John, i think i got carried away with the visual side of things and thought it might not look the same if i left stuff out. I think the arrows could have directed you better and can see this now. Thanks.
Not sure how to interpret the image but I think you’re trying to get across some interesting information, though maybe too much?
What is the main point you’re trying to make? Salt consumption? Or balance between fresh or processed food? Keep it simple…
Remember if you’re trying to communicate quantities etc that it’s usually best to make use of familiar graph types, such as a bar chart rather than create your own visual language. This is potentially a great illustration, say to accompany a magazine article, but it needs simplifying as a standalone diagram.
Hi Jonathan,
I do agree that i have included too much info….less is more! And as replied on the other comments, i think i got carried away with the visual side of things and perhaps thought by taking stuff out it wouldn’t look as good. I only had 1 receipt, which was interesting, and did wonder how i would break it all down but once i started i could see that the majority of things bought were longer keeping foods, which isn’t necessarily processed. I immediately assumed that the person was foreign and maybe didn’t know what to buy in terms of food in this country, that’s why they bought things like pasta and rice, practical, easy food that we could all do something with.
I drew this out on paper first but felt it was too messy and wanted it to look slightly more professional. I used photoshop, which was a bit of a pain, I think by using another program that enables you to draw graphs, i might’ve found it easier to condense.
Thanks