Visualising Data: Colour pallete lives on

One thing that came out of my drumming rudiments design that i truly enjoyed, is the colours. You got a bit of a glimpse at my last post on how the design looks but here is a closer view, i have gone for my chosen pallete but a bit lighter, with lots of negative space and very 'Web 2.0' styling on my final piece.

As i develop my crime final piece, you will see it shape up with this theme.

Visualising Data: The death of an idea

After finding the accurate and more interesting information on crime and the public's opinions on it, my drumming rudiments initial idea has now become obsolete, however i am still very happy with the rudiments poster and will probably print it out for myself as reference.



RIP Drumming rudiments initial idea.

Visualising Data: Collecting data 2

When going through the home office website for data, i came across the crime statistics section, and was stunned at the amount of cohesive information they had released to the public.



At this point I started to feel that the drum rudiment idea was also obsolete, and that my themed and colored mock up would serve as good practise for my final piece, which would now be about Crime.

Visualising Data: Collecting data

When looking into data for my final piece, i found it very hard to find cohesive data, drum rudiments are obvious to me as a drummer, but finding some sort of patterned data to match up to it was extremely hard, however finding data for crime became so much easier when i came across the home office website:

Visualising Data: Initial Colour pallet and speculation

After using these colours in my prototype drumming rudiments design, I am so far very happy with them, i will continue to play with various shades until i get my penultimate colour pallet for my final design.

Visualising Data: Initial design ideas and speculations

My initial ideas are now coming together, I took my notes and summarized them in this image, So far i think the food price and poverty numbers idea is a bit obsolete, i think this is pretty much ruled out as a final design idea, i am trying out the drumming rudiment and crime ideas, finding the data for both and deciding which one is more suitable

A mock up of the drumming rudiments is coming together, and i will post it soon.

I am currently working on my Colour pallet, I have a few ideas for colour use which i think will make my work a bit more exciting to do.

Visualising Data: Initial thoughts and brief ideas

*I messed up my last blog, so im reverting back to my blogspot and reposting everything*

For this project we have been asked to create a Visual system that shows relationships between information, based on any topics of our choice.

We were asked to produce a design that visualizes a group of different data into a structured diagram, the data had to correspond with each other and be represented in a way it could be understood.

In order to begin this project we will be looking at structuring and categorising information and recognising the relationships between different types/fragments of information.

Some could be linked, ie, time and date but some might be thrown together only by concept. For example, My final choice was on home office crime statistics, They may be about people, or things (objects/Variables) or events. The systems that are present in the data and its corresponding anti data would be based around 'Area' And rates or comparisons on different crimes, I explore this further later on.

What sub-systems are involved, this is something I looked into: (the rates or occurrence of crimes or victims and their representation?) We have been generating ideas as a group so that we can get started quickly. The main objective of this project was to visualize data or statistics and map the relevant relationships between the information. The data can be comparative, balanced or imbalanced or simple statistics, this leads us too design something which isn't just attractive to the eye, but attractive to the mind in a way that it can understand the data represented easily.