Connections:

-The initial spark to my idea on the form of visualization came from the Google Ripple application as mentioned in the class video "Visualizing Natural and Cultural Phenomena".

-In a way, my project can be compared to Laurie Frick's data art, as it uses a collection of similarly organized data and represent it with slight variations.

-Since my idea fitted many axes of information within one simple individual object, it fits Tufte's principle of graphic excellency.

-I decided to use purely self-made images of only shapes and colors to represent my data as humans are naturally understand it faster (Tufte 20).

-The use of the composition of color and shade of my project also resemble the cancer map of the US, along with its theories about how people's attention are drawn and how  it uses people's intuition to immediately get the information across.