Visualizing ArtPrize: Mapping the Entries and Top 25
Since the ArtPrize competition and venues are all over the city I wanted to see how their locations affected the voting of pieces. While you could gather some of this insight without visualizing it like this, it would be very difficult, and definitely not as nice looking.
Using SpatialKey I brought in ArtPrize data which consisted of 1263 entries. The data was a basic spreadsheet of the entries that I had to just save as a CSV file and the rest was geo-coded by the application. (Thanks to Joe Force & Vince Dudzinski for providing the data and asking me to visualize it in SpatialKey) Once in SpatialKey I was able to cut, slice, and filter the information to answer some questions I had, like: How are the art pieces distributed around town? I first rendered a heatmap (Screen 1: Heatmap) of the distribution of the ArtPrize pieces around Grand Rapids. Then I tried another visualization (Screen 2: Green Circles) to show the actual numbers of pieces in the various locations.Where are the Top 25 located? Using the Top 25 currently listed on the site I marked those entries and filtered out the rest to show (Screen 3: Blue Circles) where they are located. They seem to be located more in the center of town and I found that 7 of the Top 25 are located in The B.O.B. That makes sense since it is hosting 156 of the entries (the most of any other location). How many of the Top 25 are Michigan artists (vs artists outside of Michigan)? Taking the Top 25 I split up the visualization and found there are 12 Michigan artists (Screen 4: Orange Circles) and then there are 13 artists from outside of Michigan (Screen 5: Green Circles). I was surprised to find that none of the artists from outside of the US were in the Top 25. Maybe they were in bad venue locations? Where are the pieces from artists outside the US located? In the last screen I turned the layer back on showing all of the entries (Grey Circles) and placed a layer of where the artists from outside the US (Blue Circles). I found that they are distributed fairly well throughout the competition, so the fact none of them are in the Top 25 doesn't have much to do with location.
