Week 6 Reading and Assingment 3 Proposal

Today we were suppose to to go to the site http://www.niceone.org/infodesignpatterns/index.php5#/patterns.php5 and under patterns there were a huge list of categories about Arcs,Diagrams, maps, and charts.  The first section was thematic maps. Thematic maps are a type of chart or mape designed to show a specific theme connected with a specific area. These maps can portray a variety of things ranging from physical, to social, or any other aspects of a city, state, or region. An example of what this map can be used for are things like population sizes or to  show the spread of a specific diseases.

http://nicksmaps.blogspot.com/2010/07/thematic-maps.html
http://soils.usda.gov/use/thematic/temp_regimes.html

the other type of map we read about were scatterplots. A scatter plot is a mathematical diagram using Coordinates to display values for two types of variable sets. A scatter plot is used when a variable exists that is under the control of the experimenter. so there can be outliers depending on the size of the group...not used very often.


Assingment 3

For Assignment Three I want to have Yahoo be my client I am going to create a a 365 with everyday being a different specific theme that goes off of  a old time saying, an example would be, "it's like finding a needle in a hay stack or getting a taste of ones own medicine. These sayings will not be shown instead there will be a picture that describes the saying. This way its like a game you can guess what it is based on the picture and then see if your right. When you slide over the image of the action the saying will appear. it will also give you the background information on where the saying originated and how it became a saying the the first place. Its a game and you learn something at the same time.