Television Trends

This is a great idea, Eric! It is a lot more directed and succinct that the idea you originally had in class.

Here is my one suggestion: consider where you will display this data. Will it be an app that people can download? Perhaps this app will tell the user how their television intake compares to the national average? Or will this be an interactive screen in a museum? Answering these questions will make your project feel much more tangible.

I love how the information is organized in a way that is intuitive to viewers and does not feel overwhelming! Your final project has a lot more detail and a clearer goal.

My suggestion is that when I look at the chart for a specific state, my first reaction is that I am not sure if the time depicted for say 18-26 years olds is for the time they spend on Games of Thrones or for TV time overall. Also, consider how you can make the viewers make comparisons of TV time among age groups; your diagram shows clearly how the TV time varies within an age group, but I would also be interested to know how many more 18-26 years olds watch 3-5 hours of TV than the 26-35 years olds.

Great job of incorporating group feedback into your final project. This looks much more detailed than the initial idea you had in the lab.

Consider looking at the examples and drawing deeper connections between them and your piece. How can your piece engage the audience in the same way as the exemplar? Maybe incorporate an element that initially "grabs" the audiences attention, and encourages them to explore the piece further.

I like this concept quite a lot, as (before coming to CMU) I used to watch TV quite a bit. I'm a big fan of the fact that you show people what the top TV show is for each age group. However, people who fall into the age range of viewers who generally watch Breaking Bad but don't watch the show themselves won't be able to tell how much they are watching TV based on your graph. It is understandable-- there are quite a lot of TV shows that exist-- but maybe showing the top few TV shows for each age group would be slightly more inclusive and affect more people.