Description: Smartphones are used worldwide, and by a wide range of ages and societies. As an avid user of my smartphone, I am curious to know the habits of other people around the world. For my final project, I would like to do a world map of smartphone users, and I would like to use a proportional symbol technique. I would like the symbol to have two aspects, size and color/fill, to indicate the volume of users for each country, and the most widely used brand/design/type in that area.
Audience: Current smartphone users, people who don't use smartphones but are considering trying it, advertisers who want to better utilize social media/apps, business owners who want to better utilize social media/apps, People who are developing new software, applications, and new sites.
Technique: Proportional symbols and color aspects
Scope: Worldwide, major cities or regions
Data Specs: I am having trouble narrowing down a source for my data, but I know I will need the statistics for number of users in each country and of which social media tools/sites. I found a good source which gives info about providers, brands, and other smartphone/mobile phone statistics for major world regions
http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats/a#subscribers
Production steps:
The first step will be to locate data and arrange it according to most users per country
The second step will be selecting a symbol then creating proportional symbols for each country
The third step will be strategically placing these symbols so that they accurately represent the area but allow maximum readability
Possible challenges: Finding good data has already proved challenging. It is also possible that my scope is too large, and maybe I could focus on a smaller area if it becomes too overwhelming. An issue I encountered with my proportional symbol map in our previous lab was that the data range was too high, making the smallest symbol almost impossible to see, and the largest symbol bigger than the basemap. I also want to make sure I'm accurately representing worldwide statistics, I suppose the data by region might be slightly skewed or arbitrary.
Here are a few inspiration maps:
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