Data Translation Day-1

The aim for this weeks project was to use data to create a graphic outcome.

i decided to look at some already existing ones for inspiration.

Here is an image of a pie chart, each part of the pie chart that is bigger is also taller then the parts that are smaller.

Here they have actually used the books to show which is the most read book.

i think this is very well thought out, and i think it also looks quite effective.

This was created for the paraolympics and each different circle is for a different country and it has small circles around it being gold silver and bronze each one representing how many medals that country won.

After getting some inspiration i started to get down some ideas of what my project would be about.

• How much water is watched in the UK per year.
• How many hours on average do teenagers spend on there game consoles a year.
• How many different planets there are and how far away from each are they.
• How many times on average do people spend a year sleeping/eating/ awake.
• Take a survey on how many people know where the UK is on the world map.
• How much money do people spend in general on house bills.
• How many hours i spend watch my favourite TV show.

I decided that i wanted my piece of data translation to be more personal so i decided to go with the, How many hours so i spend watching my favourite TV show which would be Doctor who.

I then went on to looking into what different data translations i could do based on doctor who.

• How many times a villain has appeared in each episode.
• How many episodes i have seen.
• How many episodes there are.
• How many different assistance are there.
• How many times has the doctor visited earth.
• How many people on average watch doctor who.
• How long has each actor played the doctor.

since i have only seen the most recent 3 actors play the doctor i decided that i was going to do my data translation based on how many episodes i have seen each of them play.
9th Doctor - 13 episodes
10th Doctor - 42 episodes
11th Doctor - 39 episodes

i then went on to thinking how i would show my data in a graphical way, and i decided that i was going to use a lino print and hand print it myself.

I decided that the print will be of the tardis which will represent one episode.

So firstly i drew out a small simple tardis, i then photocopied it and started to play around with the size to see which would be the best size to print it in, the size of the final tardis i decided to use was about half the size of my original drawing.

I cut the small tardis out of the lino, an this is how it tuned out, i am very happy with it.

it is immediately recognisable.