takee_proj3

= Facebook: number of users vs. countries all over the world= toc

=Rationale= The whole concept of my project 3 is using the globe to express the idea that Facebook is a global network. And the globe shows that how Facebook users are connected globally and how many people all over the world are using Facebook. I focused on data related to number of facebook users all over the world in different countries and the proportions of male and female users, as well as based on educational background and age groups. Since I am using data that is worldwide and related to the whole world, so I guess the globe would be a good idea to present this idea.

The layout of my project is inspired by the Alchemy of Fruit Juice and the Facebook friends chart found on the infographics index. I think circle shape is an easy way to present some inter-relationships between different things. And I wanted to do something consistent with my project 1, so I chose to make a globe layout.

I had a hard time thinking about how to deal with the inter-relationships between different data because the data I found did not seem to relate with each other.

The name of the countries all over the world are lined up around the edge of the globe. And the one right below the logo "Facebook.com" is the country with the highest number of members, and gradually decreases in the clock-wise direction. The size of the words of the country names also indicates the number of members they have. United States is the biggest and then it is located right below the Facebook logo so it has the highest number of facebook members.

I aimed to create a simple layout that is easy to navigate and understand. The focus of the project is on the spatial and quantitative data, the number of facebook users in different countries and what other networks they also joined(how different networks are connected), also percentages of different age groups, gender, and educational background in each country. My project starts with a main page where you can click on the names of the countries to look for population of facebook users in each country and it also shows you how the networks are related. On the right side, there is a navigation bar which shows options of viewing facebook users according to gender, educational background and age groups. These three parts, the data of the different countries are not linked because I found that there was no way to connect them together but instead, this allows users to compare the different percentages in different countries. Since my project is dealing with many population data/demographics and people all around the world, I used simple "human icons" to present the idea of facebook users with different colors.

=Research/Data= I found data about the number of facebook users in different countries and the ranking of facebook population in different countries or networks. As well as population in different age groups, or based on educational background.

=Sketches/Concepts=

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=Final= http://www.mediamax.com/takee_chan/Hosted/2005_takee_project3.swf

=Resources= Facebook.   Humor Stats.     Alchemy of Friut Juice 

image source: Facebook  wikimedia 