For my Data Visualization Project, I decided to create an infographic for the number of Canadians living with dementia age 65 and older. The reason why I chose this project is because I found these statistics really interesting, not only could scientists predict far ahead into the future, but they can also differentiate between age groups and genders which really caught my attention. Secondly, dementia is something that runs through my family. So, naturally I used this project as a learning opportunity to learn more about how it’s effecting people and how it’s going to affect people in the near future. Overall, these are some of the reasons why I chose Canadians living with dementia.
For this project I sketched out a picture of the brain as the metaphor. The reason why I chose the brain is because I feel that dementia affects the brain the most. Therefore, I believe that the simplest way to represent dementia visually is to use the brain. For the colours, I have made them very easy to understand. starting off with the different genders, I have colour coded the thought bubbles in red and blue representing both the male and female demographic. Additionally, I have also colour coded the three different age groups that are 65 and older. This way, it makes it very easy for the reader to see the changes throughout the years. Lastly, on the infographic I have split up the data into two different thinking bubbles this way you can see the overall change between the year 2014 and the predicted growth of dementia in 2033. Also, the thinking bubble acts like a second metaphor. Since, the first metaphor is the brain it is fitting for the data to be inside of thinking bubble, making it seem like the brain is thinking about the data.
In conclusion, I am very happy with how this project turned out because I created a data infographic that shows the number of people in Canada living with dementia, while also being able to show this information in a fun and creative way.
Here is the infographic:
Here is the original data:
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