Friday, February 13, 2009

Information Design 1 - Project 2


I decided not to bother posting project 1 from this class. It's just a very simple bar graph.

Information design revolves around us learning how to graph data effectively, so that the people looking at what we make understand quickly what we're trying to show. For Project 1 we were given a choice of 3 topics: paper consumption, coffee consumption, or calorie consumption, and had to make a simple graph. We weren't even allowed to look for our own data. You used the data sheets Brian provided, and picked what data out of it that you wanted.
Project 2 got a little more in-depth.
We HAD to involve time as the main subject, and still use one of the three above choices. This time it was up to us to decide how to go about graphing (we weren't limited like on the first project to simple bar, pie, or line graphs) and whether or not we wanted to get more information.

This is what I did. Peak times of day for coffee consumption in Canada.

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