Fast Food Trends
Made by Christina Reimond
Made by Christina Reimond
My goal is to show the correlation between fast food consumption and health problems in the United States. In addition, I would like to draw attention to the large increase in fast food consumption over the last few decades. I plan to do this in a way that is familiar to much of the population and easy to understand: a chart in the form of a calendar.
Created: September 14th, 2014
My goal is to show the correlation between fast food consumption and health problems in the United States. In addition, I would like to draw attention to the large increase in fast food consumption over the last few decades. I plan to do this in a way that is familiar to much of the population and easy to understand: a chart in the form of a calendar.
I like how multivariate this form of data visualization is. It definitely alludes to the point made by Tufte in how graphical excellence is usually multivariate in form. Also, the way in which you modified the data visualization makes it easier to understand than before. Using the thickness of the line to symbolize the proportion of people eating that many times a week and the position of the center to show how many people are afflicted with that health problem makes for a clear distinction between the visuals of each variable.
However, I do have one suggestion that might make it even simpler to understand the data. What about having another line of different color, but the smallest unit of thickness, overlap with the center vectors of the current lines in the calender. This makes it even easier to visualize the center of the line. And we then have colored area around that line showing how any people eat fast food that many times each week.
That's a great idea; I think that would make the chart much easier to read so that the viewer could compare different categories of data more accurately!
Interesting connections to the readings and examples. Also, good job on presenting your project in the Gallery format.
Some things to consider:
-- Try exploring some of the other ways that the audience reacts to the examples, instead of just focusing on the visual way the information in presented. Look further at the emotional connection in the visual representation of these pieces. In the Napoleon Map, the thickness of the line directly correlates with the loss of life in war. Connecting to the audience visually and emotionally tends to draw people in faster, therefore have a bigger impact on the audience.
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