Oh, Europe
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Designer
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Data Collection
Visual Exploration
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Illustrator / Excel
P5.js / D3.js
During the six months of my internship in Europe, I went to many, many museums and visited three capitals of three countries: Vienna, Austria, Berlin, Germany, and Budapest, Hungary. I want to be able to record what I have seen and heard in these six months. Life is complicated, and the beautiful and ugly side of any country should not be summarized in a report by the media.
These visualizations will be performed according to the timeline: date, place, time, how I feel about it. I will use data visualization to depict events such as parades, pickpockets, strikes, socioeconomic downturns, police, gypsy, street homeless people, homeless refugees. Normally, travel bring us to the glorious side of a place. But when I took my luggage and lived in a real civilian area, what I saw was more real.
An individual is an epitome of some aspect of society.
VISUALIZING PARIS
The image above documents all the tourist sites of Paris I had visited. Each month is represented in different colors.
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Multiple sites visit in a single day is connected by the color line.
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My personal running zone is designed in grey.
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Markers in different shapes: small circles, large circles, stars, representing my overall evaluation of the place.
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The area of Versailles is very far from the city of Paris, so it is placed in small blocks to shorten the distance.
In this picture, I documented 5 information: homeless people, protest, pickpockets, Scammers and illegal immigrants.
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Each white dot represents a tramp I have seen. Some people have been sleeping on the street near my apartment for a few months.
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Pickpockets are very common in Paris. I have experienced once near Museum Lourve.
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Many scammers took the opportunity to steal in the name of fundraising. Some people set up gambling games to cheat money.
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A significant number of illegal immigrants make living selling souvenirs which are illegal but in a gray area.
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Protests are very common in Paris, happening almost every week and in various names.