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=Project 3: Interactive Infographics= by Marianne Mastrofini

Rationale
In terms of finding statistical data for my subject, illustration, there was pretty much very very little. After doing some research and brainstorming possible ideas, I decided that my best bet and easiest solution to getting data would be to look at a particular website and focus on web data such as number of members,visitors, etc. Illustration Mundo is basically a website that provides daily news about the illustration world and illustrators, it also provides a directory of popular illustrators. I chose to focus on this website for my project, because it provided data on illustrators, such as where they’re located, how many clicks they get within the course of 14 days, how many people have added them as a favorite, etc. It also provided me with a large list of illustrators. This interactive infograph that I created was designed to provide viewers and visitors to this site with a more visually pleasing organization of this list of illustrators that the site provides. Providing the data in a geographical way, for example, where all of the illustrators are located on a global scale, along with a chronological way, plotting the number of clicks on a particular illustrator over the course of 14 days. One requirement for this project was providing general information, which could then be focused on to provide more specific information, which could also be focused on, providing even more specific information. This is achieved with my website was it first provides the viewer with a general global map with all of the illustrators represented as orange dots. From here the viewer can mouse over any of the dots, providing more info on that particular illustrator, such as who they are, what medium they focus on, what their style is, where they’re located and an example of their work. From here the viewer can focus even more on that particular illustrator as other info is provided when they click on that particular orange dot, providing the web data, such as how popular that illustrator is, how many clicks they received in the past 14 days, how many people have added them as a favorite, etc. This data can be viewed in a chronological graph, and in a geographical matter, for example, where all of the other illustrators who like this particular one are located in the world. With these visual representations, the viewer is able to look at the data in a different way, and get a better understanding of it, rather than just providing it in word format.

Research
- In Their Ads the Words They Use link - The Super Ad Bowl: Two Decades of Players link
 * Examples of Interactive Infographics**

- Illustration Mundo [|link]