Project 3! Information.

Problem/Question: Judging by the music I listen to during each activity, what kind of music do I like to listen to when doing each task?  Also, what do I do most often according to this info?

Data collected:

Music listened to per day: 12 hours, roughly 180 songs

Artists/bands listened to most often: David Bowie, the Dandy Warhols, MGMT, Queen, Dresden Dolls, Flogging Molly, The Mountain Goats, The Velvet Underground, Neutral Milk Hotel

Top songs listened to according to itunes:

Songs/genres/artists/albums listened to most often when doing following activities:

Falling asleep: the Dandy Warhols-Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia, Queen-Greatest hits, David Bowie-Hunky Dory

Showering: The Velvet Underground and Nico, David Bowie-Lodger, MGMT-Oracular Spectacle

Working on homework: David Bowie, Flogging Molly

Working on commissions: The Dandy Warhols, David Bowie, Art Brut, Flogging Molly, The Mountain Goats, Dresden Dolls, The Velvet Underground

Playing video games:Abney Park-Off the Grid

Driving: The Mountain Goats-The Sunset Tree, David Bowie-Diamond Dogs, Gogol Bordello-Super Taranta!, Flogging Molly-Within a Mile of Home, NMH-In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Chilling (either alone or with friends): David Bowie-The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, Alladin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Lodger

Chill Music: David Bowie-Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, Alladin Sane;  The Dandy Warhols-Thrirteen Tales if Urban Bohemia;The Velvet Underground and Nico

Exciting music: Gogol Bordello-Super Taranta!; Flogging Molly-Within a Mile of Home, Swagger; Dresden Dolls-self titled, Yes, Virginia; MGMT-Oracular Spectacle;Art Brut

Thinking music: The Mountain Goats-The Sunset Tree; Neutral Milk Hotel-In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

My five influences:
http://flowingdata.com/2008/09/09/winner-of-the-personal-visualization-project-is/

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/technology/31novel.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1220196162-UGXG7+qi9Y9XZ0STgxQAZA&oref=slogin

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

http://knightfoundation.org/funding-initiatives/knight-news-challenge/

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/10/28/arts/kuo.html


Color:  I used warmer colors to equal warmer emotions and cooler colors to deal with cooler emotions.  

Project 1 Idea

The following is an idea for the first project of this class, Information Graphics:

Project 1

   
   The audience for my information graphic about traffic crash fatalities will be for the general public.  The graph will be exploring the fatalities of drivers, passengers, and unknown occupants of motor vehicles in both from 1994 to 2009, showing a decrease in fatalities as time goes on.  

The number of fatalities has gone down from 1994 to 2009.  This is due to safety improvements in vehicles such as stability control to prevent rollovers and blind spot protection among other things.  The website http://www.giftsandfreeadvice.com/free_advice/car-safety-improvements-reducing-auto-accidents-and-auto-insurance/ explains it.

The graph will be a line graph, with a blue line representing the driver deaths, a green line representing the passenger deaths, and a black line representing the unknown deaths.  In addition to this, the graph key will have a blue steering wheel icon to represent the driver, a green car seat to represent the passenger, and a black question mark to represent the unknowns.  The horizontal line of the graph will have the years used in the statistics and the vertical line will have the number of deaths.