A u t h o r s h i p & i n t e r a c t i o n

Name:
Where is home?
Postcode:
How often do you go home while you’re at uni?(between September to end of April)
Where is your term address?
Postcode:
What is the closest tube station to you?
What is your journey to uni? Please include what transport you use
How long would you roughly say it takes to get to uni everyday?

Questions i asked:

Ive collected my data and i now need to organise it so it is easy to understand and compare. The best way to do this is to create a spreed sheet.

||Concept & process||

Data gathering & display project

As a part of the process ive done some quick sketches to get some ideas of what i could create with the data i already have.

My first sketches are of simple UK/world maps with lines in the direction where people are from,with the length showing whose the furthest away and the closest. This can also be shown in other ways like spots.

Another idea i had was to use line graph.Just like a clock face the line go up time it take people to get to uni. I quite like the visual of it and if i organized it better there could be other multiple out comes for other data like distance.

- First sketches -

- Second sketches -

- Third Sketches -

My third idea i had was to use the london tube map and use everyone journey to uni to create a whole new map. i think this could be achieved by either re drawing or even erasing sections.

To get a rought estimate of how far in miles and in time i used google maps to calculate the distance from peoples home towns to harrow campus (HA1 3TP)

- Gif of all the travel routes i found -

|| Development ||

Home towns

- More sketches -

After organizing my data i started to look into what data i could focus on and how to present it visually.

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I starting drawing these sketches and developing an idea of how i can present it. i wanted to focus on distance from home to university in regards to our home town, as this is giving information on where everyone is from.

This was an experiment on how the line drawing would look with the correct measurements

My main issue i had was that its wasnt easy to read or to understand without bombarding it with text. i also find it hard to work around as some lineas are so long incomparisons to the shortest and it doesnt work well together

I had to rethink my idea. 1 it had to look visually pleasing. 2 it had to work together well so it inst all over the place and hard to read. 3 has to convey other information rather than just one.

i thought back to my research and thought i would play around with the table mat style that i saw in Brugges

I used my excel spreed sheet to organize the distance in descending order and then used the chart button to generate a percentage pie chart to give me an idea of what it should visually look like.

|| Problem solving ||

My final project is about the limits and exploration of data gathering.

After doing research for my essay and workshops i wanted to look into data gathering and what can be exposed from small informatiom. The idea of collaborative work doesn't necessary mean multiple people working together,it can be the sharing of information or in this case person details.

Im looking into my class mates and where everyone from to then create visual data from my findings.

Here i took the information i was given and expanded it using the internet to find specific quantitative data.
This shows that you can take small information and explore it further.

- Stage one -

I used the excel spred sheet to figure out percentages for each of my stages of information

I wanted to focus on three bits of information:
-1.where everyone from

-2.how far away these home towns are to university(to show how far we have either moved or traveled for education)

- 3. The comparison to over seas students to UK based students

outer circle: is where everyone's home town is in relation to distance to university. south Africa is the furthest away at 8,540 miles away and the shortest is harrow with 2.8 miles away.

middle circle: is in relation to the percentage of uk based students against over seas students.

central circle: shows the longest distance against the smallest.

This was the diagram it formed.

- Stage two -

I then went on the Photoshop and remade the diagram with my own choice of colors.i then added in the relevant information on indesign.

As you can see at the top of the diagram ive had to work around fitting the places together. i don't think this is a good way to show where they are from as you don't get the while effect of distance.

- Development -

I decided to only have three colour of green,grey and white. i felt this was less distracting than the multicolor and it also displays the separation of information better.

i tilted the whole diagram and extended the section with multiple locations. i felt like this enhanced the space and showed the locations better and in order. This also made it easier to read.

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I thought i would add in theses percentage bubbles to give an actual number / idea of the split between our class.

I then made the decition to erase the cental circle as i felt is was add information that wasnt unnecessary and was the same as the outer ring showing distance.

i think now it fits well together and is easy to under stand and read.