child of the internet + web developer = Awesome. I'm a User Experience Designer for Here is my finished data visualization project which I submitted to the Sunlight Labs 'Design for America' competition.
After looking through the federal budget and seeing some of the emphasis they put on the importance of job creation I thought it would be fun to take a look at the effect that federal grant money has on job creation in all of the states.
The original idea was to submit a full set of posters/sheets for each state, as well as a country overview on top of a map. I haven't had time to make it past the single state poster but will hopefully get back into it and create the whole set as I wanted to do initially.
Issues I had with this were purely technical - I hopped around between a bunch of different technologies when all I really needed to do was stick to a single one. I manually extracted the data and generated the basic view/layout using ruby processing, but added all of the type from within Illustrator.
I wasn't able to figure out how to do type from within rubyprocessing, but if I can figure that out, I can build a process that would allow me to simply drop the data file into the right folder and have the poster generate automatically.
