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.
December 10th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Takes a little work to understand what is happening in this graphic. I think the legend itself may contribute to this by splitting the 2 colour sets - and the scale section of the legend is somewhat hard to relate to the circles in the main graphic. I’m assuming that there is some meaning in the position of the corresponding circles on the circular grid, but am having a difficult time interpreting that. Presented well though.