Education & Income Toronto
Date:2020
For: Information Design (YSDN Year 2)
Brief: Create an infographic that compares 2
Toronto Neighbourhoods across 2 variables.
My Direction: In class we were shown lots of different way that information could be graphically represented. When given the assignment, and given the amount of time available for it, I wanted to come up with a way of representing information that was different than what I had seen in class. All around, I was happy with how this project turned out.
Breakdown
The original census data had 140 neighbourhoods and so instead of representing all of these neighbourhoods individually, I organized each region (from left to right: Etobicoke, North York, Downtown Toronto, and Scarborough) into 4 sections. This part was mostly excel spreadsheets.
I used dashed lines across the entire lower graph to represent the average income of the entirety of each of the 4 regions of Toronto. I hoped this would help to add conclusion to the information in the graph.
I created a line graph to represent income, and used the position of the bubble to give a general idea of what the average income of that specific region would be. The goal for this poster was to communicate the broad general relationship between education and income, so it wasn’t important to me to provide exact numbers.
While I was organizing the data, I realized that the numbers would look different because the populations and participating populations would change. Because of this, I added a red circle outside the solid circles to represent the total population of each region. I kept these all the same size so that the solid circles would appear to represent proportions of the total participating population, putting the bubbles in context.