True Colors
A visual experiment that evaluates the evolving graphic symbolism of the United States, True Colors is a collection of flags generated from the 2016 American Community Survey. Each flag is based on data specific to its state, and provides information at a glance.
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- Mississippi
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- Massachusetts
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- North Dakota
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- Florida
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- District of Columbia
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- California
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- Alaska
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- Arizona
Most existing flags share the same common visual cues: stripes, circles or polygons, and stars. You’ll find these familiar components in the flags of True Colors as well but their color, size, shape, and position are all determined by data.
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- Population – background
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- Housing – stripe
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- Economy – foreground
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- Education – star
Each layer of the flag corresponds to subjects that provide an informative snapshot of life in that state. The background visualizes population, the stripe shows housing, the circle or polygon represents economics, and the star indicates education.
(via @WalterStephanie)
See also
- Flag Stories: Infographics revealing the hidden stories behind flag designs —
A project to discover the hidden stories behind the design of flags. - The flag of the Refugee Nation — “A black and orange (colors of the life vests) is a symbol of solidarity for all those who crossed the sea in search of a new country.”
- WEB Du Bois: Using data to show inequality, updated — The civil rights pioneer and scholar is most famous for his book The Souls of Black Folk, but his use of data to show inequality is still profound today.
- The divided states of America: A cartogram of the 2016 election results — Benjamin Hennig is a geographer whose work looks at social inequalities, humanity’s impact on Earth, global sustainability and new the development of concepts for analysing, visualising and mapping these issues.
- Block Bills – 64 banknotes generated from the Bitcoin Blockchain — Each banknote represents one block in the chain and the whole series consist of 64 consecutive blocks.
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