A few new sketches

Hey guys. I don't have a lot done but I have some and I'm still working. Here are a few new sketches just to show employment. I'm still working on a couple. The idea is that I can use these as icons overtop of some other map. I'm thinking that I'd rather have people though. So hopefully soon I can work on icons with people doing the particular job. That seems more emotional and personable to me.

I've printed out a map with Pittsburgh topography. I'm hoping to layer other elements over this (such as employment and population). Still working on this aspect.

I'm still struggling with making this a more emotional piece.

Anyways, here are a few of the icon sketches I started, but they will definitely change as I want the person in with them.




Here are images of the maps that I'm referring to. I plan on doing my own map with a different take on elevation.

A non-scientific classification of the American kitchen

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Here's a quick sketch of the one "branch" of the tree, seen in the context of two different diets. A few things I am running into are that I can't fit all of the names of the food into the tree two dimensionally-- I'm considering trying to create depth in the tree, although this would work better in a digital format so you could move around and see the tree from different angles.

I'm also wondering how I can represent all of this information for each diet at the same time- so that the viewer can the mapping of two or more diets at the same time and see what foods overlap or what parts of the "tree" tend to be more safe overall.

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Here is a quick (well, messy, but not quick) sketch of the idea I had to classify food. I want to use color to denote the "safeness" of each food for different diets, but I haven't put together examples yet. I have a few ideas, but for now here is this piece- see what you think.

FYI, I think I'm going have this piece be a bit tongue-in-cheek, as you might be able to tell.

Sketches

Here are some initial sketches for population, housing, and employment and occupation. I haven't ordered them from abstract to literal yet.

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.

Pittsburgh Neighborhood Information

Part 1:
My three of interest include population, employment & occupation, housing

Part 2 (LATCH):
Population
Location: Pittsburgh overall, Pittsburgh neighborhoods individually
Category: age, race, employment status
Hierarchy: population by age (highest to lowest), population by location (highest to lowest)

Employment & occupation
Location: Pittsburgh overall, Pittsburgh neighborhoods individually
Category: gender, occupation, employed vs. unemployed
Hierarchy: most/least employed by location

Housing
Location: Pittsburgh overall, Pittsburgh neighborhoods individually
Category: type of household, household size, age of owner/renter
Hierarchy: most/least housing by type, size & householder

Part 3 (temporal map):


Part 4 (groupings):
(working on now)


Source of information