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 ** TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract Statement of Interest Mind Map ** Inspirations Competitors User Personas Resources



ABSTRACT
The purpose of this application is to draw attention to the conditions of different countries based on chosen demographics and to monitor the current awareness of users. This application will be an interactive infographics application that allows users to explore global mortality and birth rates through a simple, dynamic, and intuitive interface. Users will be able to visualize data based on demographical information including location, environment, population, age, gender, diet, etc. This application will serve as a powerful and momentous experience for viewing statistical data in a creative and innovative way. There will be an input section where users fill out a survey/quiz and submit the information. The submitted information would then be converted into its own unique visualization and the user would be able to see how their knowledge compared to real life statistical data. All of the user survey's would be tracked and another visualization would be generated, showing contrasts between total user knowledge and the statistical data. In addition to providing statistics, I will also include donation sites and resources that deal with addressing some of the issues related to some of the "causes of death."

//(Potential Feature: Users will also be able to visualize current information through the use of a counter that refreshes the rates based on data mining keywords from RSS feeds and/or other resources.)//

Users will be able to select, compare, and share different data about the (demographics)(ex. mortality/birth rates) of all of the countries in the world, but the scope of this project will be concentrated primarily in Africa and Eastern Europe because they contain most of the countries of the highest mortality rates. This application will serve as a clean, sophisticated environment for users to learn through interaction. < Back



STATEMENT OF INTEREST
=“As long as I can remember, I have always had an interest and desire to create and design.” = Since I was a child, there are many things that interested me, including design, technology, sports, and geography. As a child, I was always drawing residential houses and creating floor plans all the way through my teen years. Growing up in a multicultural home also sowed the seed in me to learn about other people and cultures. Having a dad with a PhD in geography, also contributed to my interest of the subject, seeing that he would always be expressing his knowledge in one way or another.

=“Learning about geography, cultures, and travel have been things that have greatly inspired and taught me for the past 10 years.” =

 This project will allow me to work closely with two topics that have intrigued me for years—geography and design. My goal in creating this online application is to demonstrate, refine, and expand my design, programming, and project management skills by creating a product that is not only meaningful to me, but is practical and useful for anyone looking to learn a little bit about the world and about the harsh realities and situations affecting various peoples in different geographical locations. This application will be a simple, yet sophisticated tool that will be useful to those who are interested in visually learning about demographical and statistical trends surrounding mortality and birth rates in a visual and interactive way. This topic is especially interesting and inspiring to me because most of my family live in a country/environment that deal with death everyday due to disease, violence, corruption, economics, lack of health care, and decaying ecologies. Creating this application is a way for me to bring awareness to the struggle and suffering of different peoples worldwide and to visualize the causes and progression/degression of their conditions.

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INSPIRATION
 At the core of We Feel Fine is a data collection engine that automatically scours the Internet every ten minutes, harvesting human feelings from a large number of blogs. Blog data comes from a variety of online sources, including LiveJournal, MSN Space, MySpace, Blogger, Flickr, Technorati, Feedster, Ice Rocket, and Google.
 * **WeFeelFine **

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LoveLines is an exploration of human desire. Through large scale blog analysis, Lovelines illuminates the topography of the emotional landscape between love and hate, as experienced by countless normal humans keeping personal online journals.Using a data collection engine created by the artists for their recent collaboration...Lovelines examines thousands of blogs every few minutes to find expressions of love and hate, posted by all manner of people. When it can, Lovelines identifies and saves the age, gender, and geographical location of the person who wrote the post, and then presents that information along with the post . <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #888888; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Via <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> [|Love-Lines.com] <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">
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See [|QuarkBase.com] || ||

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Universe is a system that supports the exploration of personal mythology, allowing each of us to find our own constellations, based on our own interests and curiosities...Universe does not suggest a single shared mythology. Instead, it provides a tool to explore many personal mythologies. Based on the chosen path of the viewer, Universe presents the most salient stories, statements and snapshots, as found in global news coverage from thousands of sources.
 * **<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Universe **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Via [|Universe.daylife.com] || ||

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Save any emotional moment by your cell phones. Build your own memory map and watch it grow. Watch how people feel around you. Organize your emotions and express yourself. (Emotional Memory Organizer), a memory-tracking application, operated by people's cell phones, provides the visualization for tracking their emotions.
 * **<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">EMO **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Via [|emo-map.com] || ||

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<span style="color: #3199c4; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">COMPETITORS
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Via [|Gapminder.com]

See [|Google Motion Chart] See [|QuarkBase.com] || ||

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> This experimental map was produced for Princeton University's International Networks Archive, an organization dedicated to finding a new way of mapping our world. The INA believes that geography is becoming increasingly irrelevant, and that there should be a new system of mapping, based on global transactions instead of geography. This map is an exploration into this theory, and reconfigures 23 world cities based on travel time between the cities instead of distance. Click on different cities, and the other world cities will slide to reflect their travel time from the chosen hub. The icons along the left of the window represent the various means of transport, and the time cost of each, in travelling between the hub and the highlighted city.
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Via [|TravelTime] || ||

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Trend Compass is a data visualization software using the latest and most powerful ideas in data visualization which is the Animated Motion Chart.
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Presenting our outstanding motion charts software - Trend Compass; we shall know more about motion charts, and as motion charts are a trend of data visualization; we shall also know what data visualization term means theoretically and practically. <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #203050; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">

Via [|EpicSystems.com] || || < Back

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 * <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #808080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Ikyopatei Akah**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;">Dr. Ebipatei Ebomi is a 48 year old, college professor from Orogbo, Nigeria who has a wife and 5 kids. He has a PhD in Social Sciences and has lived in Atlanta, GA for the past 10 years. Most of his family, who live in Nigeria are affected everyday by a failing economy, ecology, and society due to corporate exploitation, government corruption, and lawlessness. Many people in Yemi's village and home area are struggling everyday just to bring home food. IkyoPatei has an immense passion to visit Nigeria every summer in order to facilitate community development projects that will help improve the social welfare of his people. Because Ebipatei's income is modest, he cannot afford to make great personal contributions to the projects, so he needs funding in order to pay for resources and transportation that he will need while abroad. IkyoPatei uses my product as a tool for demonstrating and convincing non-profit/charitable organizations of the situation and need of his people back in Nigeria. These organizations will then fund projects and give Ikyopatei donations based his motivations and on the demonstrated need. He uses my tool as a resource to powerfully portray and communicate the serious situation of his people. ** || media type="custom" key="4526958" ||


 * <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #808080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Gregory Johnson**
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;">http://www.indexmundi.com <span style="color: #3199c4; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">@https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> @http://www.number27.org/work.html @http://unstats.un.org/unsd/databases.htm Hans Rosling: Insights of Poverty @http://processing.org/

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