Happy Australia
stuart July 3rd, 2008
Designed by our own Uriah Mathews based on data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Happy Australia shows a correlation between relationships and subjective well-being. Let us know how effective you think this graphic is. We’d be very interested to read your comments on:
Whether the format (appearance, use of shapes) seems objective or biased, credible or questionable;
Whether the format seems too dense or difficult to decrypt, too far removed from its subject matter; and
Whether the colours seem too similar or whether this clearly shows that the bandwidth of perceived happiness is quite narrow: that noone seems 100% happy, nor less than 50% happy.
July 4th, 2008 at 5:12 am
It’s a shame that the band meant only these colours come in. I’m itching to see some dark blue and red action. I feel a little cheated not to see them despite them being in the legend. Perhaps there are a series of graphics with the same legend that uses them more.
OK it needs work to decipher, which is not necessarily bad, but I am still a little unclear of the meaning of the positions etc. Looks lovely though.