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Infographic: Beeing in Harmony
BACKGROUND
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[text from the George Brown College website, course Data Visualization and Infographics]
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The sea of information available to us today is overwhelming, and it can be a struggle to separate the signal from the noise. The course teaches how to work with data to communicate and present information more effectively.
CHALLENGE
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The selected theme was Bees and Honey production, an interesting field of study due to climate change and their colonies spread out acrosss the American Continent.
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The main challenges were:
• Locate, gather data from reliable sources and prepare data sets for visualization;
• Communicate data and information effectively by creating intuitive visualizations that leveraged the principles of visual perception and storytelling;
• Write a clear data visualization plan. To develop a vertical layout with colour palette, typography and imagery, in accordance with its targeted audience.
PROCESS
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While learning principles of information visualization, I gained hands-on experience on the process of leveraging data to tell compelling stories. During this infographic development, I had the opportunity to experience visual communications in action, the design thinking behind complex graphics creation, I got a taste on how to work with data, learned where to find reliable information, how to process it and how to use in a narrative format.
RESULTS
The result is an engaging and informative graphic that tells the story of the bees' declining colonies. I chose the USA as my case study, and showed:
* why the colonies are disappearing there;
* how climate change and mono-cropping can make ecosystems unhealthy for bees;
* how it affected the country's export and import behaviours for the past 60 years, and;
* how we can prevent this decline other countries.
Full Infographic
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PROJECT INFO
How: George Brown College student
What: Course - Infographics and Data Visualization
When: 2020
Industry: Information Design & Marketing