Research: The World's Best Countries

This is also a comparative infographic, which allows users to compare education, health, quality of life, economic dynamism and political environment data from different countries by filtering the country selection to get more information in each category. 

I want to use filtering in my infographic, so users can hone in on one area of the data and get more detail in that category. I think this will work well for the type of data that I want to use. 

The infographic can be found at:

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/15/interactive-infographic-of-the-worlds-best-countries.html

Research: Scale of the Universe

This comparative interactive infographic is really interesting as it compares the sizes of landmarks, planets and other things in the universe to create perspective for the user of exactly how big our earth and universe really is. By comparing things from the smallest atom to the entire estimated size of the universe, the user can better grasp the scale of the galaxy. The data is enhanced by the interactivity as you can choose to scale in and out to see specific information, in proportions that the user can process easily. 

I would like to incorporate aspects of this infographic into my own, I like that the simple concept has the ability to display mass amounts of data in ways which the user can understand. 

The infographic can be found at:

http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/

  

Research: Information is Beautiful - Learning How To Visualise

The website, Information is Beautiful, is really helpful in just opening my imagination to the different ways to present data, particularly the page Learning How To Visualise. 


The author of this website, David McCandless, shares his experience and ideas on projects he has worked on and the development process for them. He has created a webpage called Creating The Book which outlines his general approach to creating his infographics. 


McCandless states that, "Personally I feel that most data needs a degree of sculpting, shaping, editorialising to make it approachable, or useable, or to allow the interesting story or pattern inside to be revealed". 

some examples

Timelines: TimeTravel in TV and Film
Yup, we went through 36 drafts of this. Yes, I am a rampant perfectionist. Yes I can be difficult to work with.




Information is Agonizing: Designing The Cover of the book
Creating the UK cover for Information Is Beautiful was an agonizing yet gloriously creative pain in the ass involving over 90 – yes nine-ty – different versions.

Versioning: Because Every Design Is Good For Something
How do you flag and label 142 countries on a single map without choking the result? With great difficulty.




Executing The Exos
200 million stars, 26,000 light year, over 500 planets discovered outside our solar system. How do you visualize that?

Brief

Project Brief
Produce a persuasive interactive information graphic for touch screen. Based on selected data sets of your choosing.


The Objectives

• demonstrate the appreciation of the complexity of an issue
• offer simpler path/story into the issue/data
• identifying a message for change
• communicate a message convincingly

Idea of Interest

Australian Expenditure:

This information graphic will have the purpose of displaying large comparative data sets about the different areas of expenditure in Australia (including health, welfare, education, advertising, tourism, fast food etc). It will enable users to view the data in a simpler and more aesthetically pleasing way in order to compare each category easily and to form perspective and judgement based on that.