DATAVISUALISATION 3

The first work is Stifling-Stippling.

It contains the population density of the continents and countries. 

A lot of people can make you feel stifling.

I used an emotional and technical approach. The emotional approach lets viewers understand data easy with their senses.

The technical way helps the emotional approach to improve the data design because data is very complex and chaotic. Therefore, these two support each other. 

I started the world map topic for my Master thesis. When I studied the world map, there are a lot of propaganda in the world map as we know it. For example the dividing of North and South, and East and West came after WW2. It was not so long ago. The division of North and South also educates people in a Metaphorical way. The North represents rich and strong countries and the South is poor and weak. 

Since I studied the propagandistic way of data visualisation in the world map and how ancient people tried to break the propaganda from the world map, I came up with this data visualisation. 

The world we know is naturally set up and we naturally connect it to our stereotypes when understanding the world. However, visualising data about the world can be designed differently. 

Nowadays there are still a lot of designs which show the data of the world in a propagandistic way. In order to offer viewers the information directly without stereotyping or propaganda, I decided to remove the countries shapes and make it all in the same geometric shapes. In this way, viewers will not be able to connect the countries with stereotype or propaganda because viewers are facing the data itself. They have to think a lot and be conscious about the world's situation. 

Mostly, data visualisation has country shapes or locations because this way of design links viewers mind to previous propaganda. My way let viewers quickly understand. Therefore, I try not to obey outdated visualisation.