Some symbols

Here's a start on some icons representing different diets. I kept running into problems because the things I'm representing are pretty broad topics, and it's hard not to narrow them down too much.

I'll try to work on some more interesting ideas in the coming days.

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I found this website that I might collect some data from, even though it's a little late. Basically it has nutrition information for 13,000 foods (it's off of the USDA website). I found the "key" they provided to explain the food codes- it has a fairly complete list of all types of foods that I could work from as well. It's pretty cool anyway if anyone wants to check it out.

http://199.133.10.140/codesearchwebapp/(mqh4bfv4ghhohu55ikx5erny)/codesearch.aspx

Pics from abstract to Literal

Attached are various pics I've done mapping concepts from abstract to literal:

Haves vs. Have Nots



Annual Income



Gross Domestic Product



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Sounds -

1. Descending bells I recorded... could represent either depth or weight
Bells

2. Coins - these are sound of coins I recorded: 1 coin falling onto table, coin into a cup, lots of coins falling onto table, lots of coins into a cup.

Coins

I'm Late!

My apologies for the delay. Because of Senate's big orientation event yesterday and the preparation that I had to do for that, I'm a couple of days behind on all my work as well as exhausted. Hopefully I can catch up on everything soon, though...

Anyway, here's my data organizing:

Population/Birth Rate
Change in total world population over time (time)
Birth rate/number of babies born annually (time)
Number of people who die annually, for comparison (time)
Regions of the world with the highest birth rates (location, category)

Adoption Statistics
Birth rate/number of babies born annually (time)
Number of children adopted annually (time)
Number of children put up for adoption annually (time)
Estimated number of children abandoned/orphaned annually (time)
Regions of the world with highest number of children abandoned/orphaned (location, category)

Environmental Changes
Increase in air pollution (time)
Number of trees cut down to create more living space (time)
Increase in average global temperature (time)
Regions of the world with the highest increases in these factors (location, category)

And here's what I'm thinking in terms of visual map:


Basically, I'm thinking that my representation should include two modes, one to organize data by time (like a graph) and one by world regions (like a map), so you get both an overall idea of the increase of the statistics, and a sense of which parts of the world they are affecting the most.