The first graphic I’m doing is called Selfie City. In this day and age, everyone we know or heard of takes a selfie wherever they are at. It just simply means that you are taking a photo of yourself by yourself. This visualization shows tens of thousands selfies that were made over from 5 different cities alone which are New York, Sao Paulo, Berlin, Bangkok and Moscow. The visualization is simply providing quick access to all different types of females whether heavily left-leaning, widely smiling, glasses-wearing. However, significantly females take more selfies than men the interactive elements of the design of this site are image plots, bar graphs, an interactive dashboard and other data graphics. This engages with the audience because it shows the creation of different types of selfies made and even shows what city the most are shot in. I would not change to much about the site besides taking away all the different advertisements shown around the graph.
The second graphic I chose is called Youtube trends: the most popular videos by location. This is a visualization of the most viewed and shared videos in various regions across the United States during the last 12 to 24 hours. The main goal in posting videos on youtube is to have them viewed by as many people across the globe as possible. On the other hand this graphic shows different ranges from it being suitable for everyone down to certain ages. The interactive elements of this design shows a series of horizontal bar graphs, each representing a graphical summary of the top videos for a different demographic. This engages with the audience because it shows a wide variety of what kind of video you can post on youtube letting you know that everyone has a different type of audience when viewing videos, it seems effective in the role. I would improve on this site simply by making the chart bigger and have the thumbnails color coordinated to separate the different types of viewed videos.
My third graphic I chose is on an iPad app that provides info graphic interface for the quantified self. This free iPad app basically makes it easier for people with tracking, logging and analyzing your activities a visual experience. This visualization is useful for a person that likes to sort all of their personal data, whether it is from how many books you have read, diet plans, dates or important information you have for someone really special. The interactive elements in the design of this site is the colorful theme of the bubbles, pie charts and circles that are coated in various playful animations. This engages with the audience simply because everyone can use an app that stores your own personal data and information in, so no one but yourself sees it. I think it is very effective in its goal. I would not do too many changes to the design of this site but remove the advertisements again because I feel it distracts the person from looking at the graphic.
