Global Slavery Index

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The inaugural edition of the Global Slavery Index 2013 provides a ranking of 162 countries around the world, based on a combined measure of three factors: estimated prevalence of modern slavery by population, a measure of child marriage, and a measure of human trafficking in and out of a country. The Index provides a quantitative ranking of 162 countries around the world according to the estimated prevalence of slavery, that is, the estimated percentage of enslaved people in the national population at a point in time. The Index also provides an estimate of the size of the modern slavery problem, country by country (from the global slavery index home page; http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/about).

This project sets out to map the world rankings through a data visualisation approach. The intended outcome is a poster that includes a central circular display with lines of various shades and weights to indicate where the country stands in the overall index. More information on the fictitious brief here. *Please note that I am in no way affiliated with the global slavery index, the walk free foundation or any of their work. I am just a supporter of what they have achieved and decided to use their data to work on this project for personal reasons.

The following is a scale with a listing of the countries represented by line colours and weights:

The central object took some experiementation. The initial idea was to a rather symetrical circlular figure with consistency in the line lengths and directions. The following animated presentation provides a glimspe into some of the variations I experimented with. Heavy use of distort, perspective and transform options have been applied. Overall I feel the initial idea of the rather symetrical circle object works well to most easily present the information, however the other options make the image look more dynamic and interesting.

Here are some shallow depth of field photography images taken from my tamron 17-50 f2.8 lense. The central image of the circle with lines creates a nice visual display.