Google Data on Halloween Costumes

Google created a site that shows popular costumes by region based off of nationally and locally collected data on Halloween costume searches. The map is an interactive visualization which reminded me of our last project in DTC 477 on data visualization. Not only does the site show popular costumes rigonally, but it also shows in a different part of the site, what costumes are the most popular right now nationally. It even gives suggestions to unpopular costumes for those who to be more unique with their costume.

Site: https://frightgeist.withgoogle.com/

Data Visualization

This is my Data Visualization. It is a stream of one continuous thought, that moves from one subject to the other. I first started out thinking about Star Wars. I then thought of the movie theater, which then led me to Thanksgiving. I thought of Thanksgiving because usually my family goes to the movies around the holidays. After Thanksgiving, I thought of Las Vegas because this year for Thanksgiving I will be in Las Vegas. And then while in Las Vegas I will see Mystere, a show by Cirque du Soleil, which is how I got to those thoughts. Cirque du Soleil is in Montreal, which reminded me of a design firm up there called Sid Lee. Sid Lee reminded me of the Digital Technology and Culture program. And from there I thought about my job with the Office of Student Life, and doing graphic design for them. And then I thought of Star Wars again because Student Life is doing a Star Wars themed dead week this semester. 

The map is a combined map of San Fransisco, Pasco, Ply
mouth, Las Vegas, Montreal and Richland, which all represent the location of the the subjects of the thoughts. The size of the words indicates the amount of time that I spent thinking about each subject relative to each other. The line indicates the path that I took in the thought process.