2.23.2014
2.22.2014
About the audience
Project is dedicated for:
1. everyone, starting from teenagers (15+?)
2. people who are potentially interested in society and want a better understanding of it's changes but
3. are not scientists and data presentation is not familiar for them.
Data presentation must be legible and that unusual/ interenting that people would like to explore it further. However some of the audience can be:
4. students, who may need to compare data precisely and get detailed informations.
Project must have options to customize data and give acces to detailed info.
1. everyone, starting from teenagers (15+?)
2. people who are potentially interested in society and want a better understanding of it's changes but
3. are not scientists and data presentation is not familiar for them.
Data presentation must be legible and that unusual/ interenting that people would like to explore it further. However some of the audience can be:
4. students, who may need to compare data precisely and get detailed informations.
Project must have options to customize data and give acces to detailed info.
2.18.2014
Idea development- scanning data...
At the beginning, I was thinking about the use of the data about: migrations- the country of origin by the year of arrival, spatial density of population and its structure (non-UK born and UK-born). I also wanted to see through data about religion ant ethnicity.
Spatial diveristy is not that interesting for me any more- in a large scale spatial diversity of non-UK bor citizens is the same as all the population. Interesting exprience could be to see how it looks inside the cities (because of the chain migration and the habit of living in communities), but theres no full data about that.
Scanning data, I found interesting that big part of imigrants are students, whose number is constantly growing. Next reason why people decide to move in UK, are job factors and then to accompany member of family. I thought that it tells something about who really are these thousands of "non-UK born citizens" coming every year.
I think that its interesting to focus on the inflows and the outflows of people (according to: ''long-term international migration 1991-2012 top ten countries''), the number of students (''main reasons for migration general data 1991-2012'' and "students- top ten EU/non-EU countries of domicile 2008-2013")
I'm going to use data from these sources:
OECD.StatExtracts- outflow
customizing database to get "Outflows by foreign population by nationality for United Kingdom through the years 1985-2011"
OECD.StatExtracts- inflow
customizing database to get "Inflows by foreign population by nationality for United Kingdom through the years 1985-2011"
Office for National Statistics
Passport held by the year of arrival in UK by country of birth (data by UK regions)
Office for National Statistics
2.04 LTIM Main Reason for Migration, 1991-2012 (Excel sheet 64Kb)
data about the students
Higher Education Statisctics Agency
pdfs from Non-UK domicile students topic:
Table 5 [xlsx 18 KB] Top EU countries of domicile (years 2008- 2012)
Table 6 [xlsx 18 KB] Top non-EU countries of domicile (years 2008- 2012)
Waluable sources of information
Long-Term International Migration Flows to and from UK from The Migration Observatory of the University of Oxford
Immigration, diversity and social cohesion from The Migration Observatory of the University of Oxford
International Migration Outlook (2013, 2010, 2008, 2006) from OECDiLibrary
short raports for better data understanding
Spatial diveristy is not that interesting for me any more- in a large scale spatial diversity of non-UK bor citizens is the same as all the population. Interesting exprience could be to see how it looks inside the cities (because of the chain migration and the habit of living in communities), but theres no full data about that.
Scanning data, I found interesting that big part of imigrants are students, whose number is constantly growing. Next reason why people decide to move in UK, are job factors and then to accompany member of family. I thought that it tells something about who really are these thousands of "non-UK born citizens" coming every year.
I think that its interesting to focus on the inflows and the outflows of people (according to: ''long-term international migration 1991-2012 top ten countries''), the number of students (''main reasons for migration general data 1991-2012'' and "students- top ten EU/non-EU countries of domicile 2008-2013")
I'm going to use data from these sources:
OECD.StatExtracts- outflow
customizing database to get "Outflows by foreign population by nationality for United Kingdom through the years 1985-2011"
OECD.StatExtracts- inflow
customizing database to get "Inflows by foreign population by nationality for United Kingdom through the years 1985-2011"
Office for National Statistics
Passport held by the year of arrival in UK by country of birth (data by UK regions)
Office for National Statistics
2.04 LTIM Main Reason for Migration, 1991-2012 (Excel sheet 64Kb)
data about the students
Higher Education Statisctics Agency
pdfs from Non-UK domicile students topic:
Table 5 [xlsx 18 KB] Top EU countries of domicile (years 2008- 2012)
Table 6 [xlsx 18 KB] Top non-EU countries of domicile (years 2008- 2012)
Waluable sources of information
Long-Term International Migration Flows to and from UK from The Migration Observatory of the University of Oxford
Immigration, diversity and social cohesion from The Migration Observatory of the University of Oxford
International Migration Outlook (2013, 2010, 2008, 2006) from OECDiLibrary
short raports for better data understanding
2.11.2014
How to do it?
Idea nr. 1.
Geography based visualizations
data mapping
Software?
Esri- free mapping software for the web
other?
Real-time data visualizing concept
2.10.2014
Research part 3- other interesting and creative interactive data visualizations
Here are some samples of data visualizations that I found creative and unusual.
Worldshapin
2010 Global Migration- Double Paper Pie Chart
Worldshapin
Project in data visualization by carlo zapponi and vasundhara parakh
This tool enable user to compare countries with the world, continents and other countries, using indicatiors such as: health, carbon footprint, workplace equality, living standard, population and education. Each of these indicators are placed on one of 6 axis and create a "shape of the area". There are also bar charts which helps to understand data. I think this solution is really interesting.
project by Alexandra Muresan
Author select top 30 emigration countries and top 30 immigration countries by the numer of people. Other countries are grouped by geographical regions. I like this solution because it shows the connection between immigration and emigration. The craft-kind design is beautiful. Visualizer is easy to navigate- one use sliders and go to the end of the sliders to get more specific data. There are instructions about how to use it. There are bar charts for better data understanding.
Foreign Domestics - comparison of national and international carriers in domestic flight routes
project by Till Nagel
This infographics is really simplified- each country is represented by white circle and each airport is a black dot. Lines shows available domestic routes between airports and they can be black- for national carriers and red- for international carriers. It becomes visible that in some countries domestic routes are nearly fully operated by national airlines and in some mostly by foreign airlines. It would be also useful to see that larger countries have more domestic connections while smaller don't have any or have just a few. Unfortunately infographics don't show the area of the country, so user have to use one's own knowledge.
UN Global Pulse – The voices of the vulnerable
project by Alexandra Muresan
This visualization is navigated by horizontal and vertical arrows. Exploring via horizontal arrows user can see the overview of all countries and then data about each country one by one. Exploring via vertical arrows user will get a view of certain issue in all of the countries.
2.07.2014
Reasearch part 2- traditional infographics illustrating population
Here are some examples of two-dimensional data visualizations.
Non-UK born census populations 1951-2011
Often, it's necesarry to create several infographics to illustrate more complex data and relationship between them. Next three charts creates dataset, and to have a clear picture of information, one should understand all three charts.
Arrival timeline for a selected range of non-uk countries of birth in 2011 in England and Wales
This chart indicates how the number of people in each county changes while people getting in and out of work. Map chart on the right side is scaled by population to show differences more suggestively. This way is commonly used in infographics, but in my opinion the various shapes of pieces don't give a true notion of area differences between them and so, are difficult to compare and make conclusions. While pointing at each county user can find it's real size on the map on the left side which is very helful.
Here is one more example of scaled map chart. Author used the tiles of the same size, so the chart is much more legible.
Non-UK born census populations 1951-2011
Often, it's necesarry to create several infographics to illustrate more complex data and relationship between them. Next three charts creates dataset, and to have a clear picture of information, one should understand all three charts.
1. Here, bubble chart is used to show top-ten non-uk countries of birth durnig the years 1951-2011. Size of the bubble and caption number shows emigrants number. Every bubble has a caption with the name of the country and additionally author use specific colour for each country- thanks to that user can easily compare and see changes through the years. Bubbles are placed in the coordinate system where y-axis sygnalize position in 1-10 top non-uk countries of birth, and x-axis shows year. In my opinion it's useful and well-designed infographic.
2. Bar graph illustrates the number of all other non-uk born citizens. The high of each bar is propotional to a number of people and captions shows specific numbers.
3.Pie charts shows relationships between the number of citizens born in "top-10 non-uk countries" and "all-other non-uk countries"
Population in England and Wales by ethnic group
This chart shows the number of people in each ethnic group by the proportional size of area.
Arrival timeline for a selected range of non-uk countries of birth in 2011 in England and Wales
It's more complex which shows how difficult is to show more complex data on two-dimensional surface. User need few minutes to learn how to read the chart. Lack of order in names of the countries is disadvantage in this presentation. For me it's also misleading to put data about number of people arriving in two quadrants while it could be put in one quadrant. Probably present solution looks better but understanding and comparing information become more difficult.
2.04.2014
Research part 1- inspiring interacive data visualizations
Global Migration by Origin
I found this tool really entertaining and easy to use. You can see how people were migratinf from places all over the world through years- starting from 1960. You can compare migrant patterns of two chosen countries and explore more specyfic data by clicking.
Infographic Shows The Shifting Racial Makeup of L.A
In my opinion this infographic is really beautiful - using colorful dots on a map it clearly shows spacial diversity of L.A citizens. Of course percentage values in left down corners of illustration are also very useful.
This infographic is not really interactive- user can only scale it.
Population estimates in England and Wales 2001-2011 by country of Birth
Using this tool you can compare changes in structure of groups of people selected by country of birth. You can compare two groups as well as compare changes within one group during ten years.
Long-term Migration into and out United Kingdom
People movin- migration flows across the world
The form of this visualization really appeals to me. Quite big disadvantage in my opinion is that we can see only a small part of chart in one moment.
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