Week 4: Impacts of Covid-19 on Sacramento Workers

For this week, the infographic titled “How Covid-19 Changed Work in Sacramento” caught my eye. I thought the color palette was a great touch especially when you take into consideration that medical logos have very similar colors. I mean, I only have to type in “medical color palette” on the internet and this pops up immediately (among a slew of similar colored palettes):

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Among other great qualities of this infographic, I thought the spacing and font size made it both enjoyable and easy to read. There were no large blocks of words and it was broken up by the graphs and charts in a way that catered to my short attention span. 

Sources:

I found that the placement of the sources was perfect. The creator did not attempt to hide them away by making them smaller or by grouping them all up in a blob at the end of the piece. Likewise, the creator did not make a vague statement about their “many sources” without providing even a name for their sources. Further, when I look up the names listed, I can find the actual survey put out by the foundation that conducted this study. So, the sources were easily accessible and did not include misleading information.

What Can be Done Better?

This may be considered nitpicking, but I noticed that the percentages never reached 100% as in, either a small percentage was grouped separately and was not included due to the numbers being “negligible” (they were anywhere from 1-2%) or the creator might not have had enough room to include them. However, considering the way the numbers for the other two factsheets or infographics were presented (either very out-of-date or numbers pulled from sources that were unknown), I don’t think this can be labeled as unethical or misinformation.

    To be more of a nitpicker, I think the creator could have found one more organization that contained information regarding work numbers due to Covid-19. I see they relied on two pieces of information from the same foundation. However, considering that I am not sure what the criteria were for this assignment, I wouldn’t jump to consider this a major negativity.