Patricia *// Arashi!

It’s the normal menu I found at the McDonald’s website.

With big and colorful pictures and clearly label numbers, you can easily read the menu and order your meal even though you might not understand the Chinese tittle. At the website, you can click on those burgers and view bigger picture and see those foods clearer.

Another interesting informaion design I found is also relate to McDonald’s. I found it at the Mc.Donalds USA. I found something call the ”McDonald’s Nutrition’s Fact for Popular Menu Item”.  What does it do is that it shows you the size of the item, how many calorines, calories from fat, total fat, etc. It uses chart to represent every data and makes you easy to trace and look at. One thing bad about this list is that it dones’t show you the picture of the product, instead, it shows the name of the products. But it’s hard to recongnize the name of each items.

Since the list is too long to post the whole list here, I will just post part of it and post the link.

and the website : http://www.mcdonalds.com/app_controller.nutrition.index1.html

Read this next time before you eat McDonalds’s!

This presentation discusses if our world become a better place or not by comparing the children per woman and the death rate in each countries for the past 50 years. The graph starts at 1962 and separates the world into two categories: industrialized countries and developing countires. In general, industrialized countries, such as United States, France, Romania, have death rate lower than 10% and each woman has less than four children. However, those developing countries, such as China, Iraq, Thailand, have death rate from 10% to 40% and each woman has four to eight children. After 1962, those developing countries gradually become industrialization countries by export bicycles, clothes, and shoes. While these countires become industrialized, their death rate dramatically drop to about 20% and each woman has less than seven children. At the end of the presentation, it foucus on one nation, which is Bangladesh, and specifically traces its death rate and children per woman to show us how our world becomes different. Best of all, you can click on those circles to see each countries’ death rate and children per woman.

This is a very interesting and amazing presentation that shows us how the world change over time. Overall, this is a very good presentation .The graph in very clear, easy to understand and  Each continent has a color and each country is represent by a circle and the size of the circle is correspond to the population.

http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/presentations/has-the-world-become-a-better-place-2005.html