08 May Workbook for Digital Journalism
Proportion of the population per age group
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/refreshTableAction.do?tab=table&plugin=1&pcode=tps00010&language=en
Population rise/fall by 2080
http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do
GDP
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/refreshTableAction.do?tab=table&plugin=1&pcode=tec00001&language=en
Mortality rates
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/refreshTableAction.do?tab=table&plugin=1&pcode=tps00205&language=en
Employment in the EU as of 2017
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&language=en&pcode=t2020_10&plugin=1
April 10th – found all of my data sets, except for Employment in the EU and GDP rates.
Researched the topic and dove in to a lesson on GDP and how it affects the population in order to be able to understand the data I’m using on my infographic.
April 13th – first design ideas and planned the way I want my infographic to look via a wire frame. The original wire frame worked exactly how I wanted it to so I did not have to change it at all.
I settled for using the application visme to create my infographic due to its seeming simplicity and access to many types of charts and graphics. However as I kept using visme I ran into many problems such as on April 19th when creating the map graphic the app kept making countries red automatically which would mean I had to go back and change them to the correct colour and then double check that it hadn’t done it again right as I finished. This caused me a lot of problems as the app was also having some glitches in terms of adding or removing text boxes and the undo button would not bring them back so often I was stuck rewriting my information.
May 4th – As I was nearing the end of my infographic I struggled with integrating the last graphic which was to do with employment as it didn’t quite follow the style of my overall infographic, but I really wanted it to be a part of it as it adds a lot of valuable information.
