Looking Outwards 7

For this looking outwards assignment, I decided to look at this chart that helped visualize food additives and where they are most commonly found. The reason why I chose this graph is because I’ve always been very health conscious and aware of what goes into my foods. Although I’ve always on and on about how unhealthy snacks can be.

Something that I really like about this work is asides from it’s informational purposes is how it is able to turn data that would normally be a bar chart into something easier to read that can communicate data on quantity on bar thickness like a pie chart but demonstrate the dramatic disproportionate distribution like a pie chart.

I think that they used algorithms that determined thickness as a proportion of the quantity and then just connected the points to the corresponding category.