Week 3 Tasks

DRAFT BRIEF OF ANALYTICS ENGINE

With the Week Two's flowgraph relating to DISTANCE between entities in mind, I wanted to create a custom flowgraph that would use this and react accordingky.

A way I figure I could combine this idea with the light intensity data given by the pachube feed was to illuminate either an area or object with an intensity that corresponds with how far away the player is from the object/area

"How will your Analytics Engine allow a viewer to draw conclusions that would be difficult (or impossible) to reach by interrogating the data in its raw form?"

After a brief discussion with another student in the course, Daniel Juarez, I explained that the XML light intensity data would be represented by the light intensity of an area or object. Unlike the raw data, this is a more literal and and graphically easier to understand for users.

Cool Infographics

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7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast?
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This infographic uses colors for a typical person to differentiate between countries, and not only liquid to represent the predicted population, but also cleverly uses the rate of which the liquid is poured into the glass to show the rate of growth of each country.

I could incorportae this into my analytics engine by having my object or area glow a certain colour based on the data. Another idea I have thought of is to have an object that would repeatedly move (acting as some sort of 'generator' objet) to show the rate or current intensity of the light, moving faster at high intensities and slowing down when the data becomes 'darker.'


Social Media Usage in the UK
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This infographic, like the above, also makes use of colours to differentiate between different types of social media. The icons themselves clearly indicate the type of social media as well.

A bar graph, in my opinion, is a tool that is universally known and easy to understand. Looking at them right now, they vary in all sorts of heights and could be used as some sort of obstruction that rises up to shade an area/object at certain light intensity thresholds.

The Blog Tree: New Growth infographic and Q&A
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Not directly related to the information itself, but I found the concept of using a tree to display information potentially useful. The light intensity data could be represented by making an object's size, or amount exponentially grow and branch out into a larger number/size corresponsing to the data. Particles could also be used to show the intensity "multiplying' as the light gets more intense.