Research

For my research I found images of existing infographics and annotated them with the category they fit into and an annotation of my thoughts on each and on how effective they are and inspiration I could take from them. Doing this helped me to see all the different categories of infographic so that I could see which category I liked best and would be most effective way to display my information.

Data Collection Activity

Data

We counted how many male and females walked up and down the stairs in 25 minutes and also wrote down there hair colour and length and ethnicity.

Then using the information I made a variety of graphs for each category.

I tried out a few different formats to show my data and I decided to do individual graphs for each category because it would be very complicated and cluttered if I put it all on one. After experimenting I found I liked the pie charts best because they are the most simple and clear and I think they look most effective when put inside the shapes because it illustrates what they are about before you read the key so they are visually showing the information. I also used colours to show male or female and skin/hair colours to help visually show the information better. I did try using 3D on my first graph but I like the style of the 2D better because the colours stand out better and they are simple and easy to look at and understand.