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This is only on the Explore: Artist page
It should be listed on the bottom of each Explore page
But in a bigger typeface, as there should really only be 3 type sizes on each page (somehow Explore: Artist has a ton of type sizes)

Also, can you add my name? ;)

Note: This Report has been produced by BFAMFAPhD contributors Julian Boilen and Vicky Virgin (with copy edits and bug testing by contributor Caroline Woolard) without pay. If you would like to donate money to our collective, please email us at: [email protected].

Can you give more space to the key text where it says: How do we define "artist"? Also note: "artist"? not "artist?"

I think seeing "Other" as the main job for most degrees is very strange. Can you specify what does in other, or place it at the bottom of the results?

This says "Either" which is confusing. It should say "All People"

Perhaps this heading: "If we define artist by primary occupation, there are 98,412 artists in NYC."

The black top nav is great, but when the content below is black, it's illegible. So, Rent Burden and Degree vs Job look great, just please use that style guide for Poverty as well.

In Explore: You, please add a period to sentences

Add your project. <--- make this L type
All fields are optional. <--- make this S type correspond to your S, M, L type decision.

I think "Artist as Occupation" vs. Non-Artists is confusing, and that it should be "Art Occupation vs. All People in NYC" or "Art Occupation vs. All People"

This page needs some styling, which I think you know, so that it is more clear and more beautiful, generally. I think you can remove "By occupation" because (as I said in the previous issue), the new heading will say "We define artist by degree and by occupation."

In the pie chart, please make "Creative Class" into "Architects and Designers" and "Other Related Artists" into "Other Cultural Producers"

The edit the text that says "We also recognize these other groups of creative occupations, but don’t include them in calculations." to say "We plan to include architects and designers in our next Report:" and then get rid of the strange second subhead that says "We would like our Report to include these createive professions:"

In the Rent section, it's hard to see the filters. For Rent Burden, can you make the sentence and visual/chart smaller? One solution is to get rid of "Filter the data to see rent burdens for different groups" at the top, and place it below the Bar Chart, instead of "But show only..." as that is in a different type size than the top sentence, and is too far down. So now it will look like:

This shows the rent burdens* of artists in comparison to other people living in New York City.

THEN THE IMAGE / BAR CHART

Filter the data to see rent burdens for different groups.

All People
Male
Female

Please edit "Due to small sample size for many of the smaller groups, statistically significant conclusions or comparsions shouldn't be made from this chart. However, it does reflect the wide variety of jobs art graduates work in."

To say:

"NOTE: All tiny categories in this visualization have small sample sizes. Do not use tiny categories to make statistically significant conclusions."

To mirror the styles on other pages, this nav say "Define: Artist" not "Define: Menu"
The title should say: This shows the art degrees and art occupations included in this Report.

http://censusreport.bfamfaphd.com/artistclasses

Please use this copy with minor edits, made below. The only other thing is I know many people will be very offended by calling the Arch/Design group "Creative Class", so I changed it to "Designers and Architects" as that is a term that Richard Florida coined and is controversial, so I took that out.

Using the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey Microdata from 2010-2012 to find data about artists, BFAMFAPhD found data about "artists" by looking at "field of degree" or "primary occupation." In this report, an "artist" is someone with an arts degree (see below for degrees we include) or someone who makes a living in the arts. We included the following primary occupations in our Report:

Photographers
Writers and authors
Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all other
Musicians, singers, and related workers
Dancers and choreographers
Producers and directors
Actors
Artists and related workers
We also recognize these other groups of creative occupations, but don’t include them in calculations.

We would like to expand our Report to include these creative professions:

Designers + Architects:
Designers
Architects (except naval)

Other Related Cultural Producers:
Editors
Archivists, curators, and museum technicians
Television, video, and motion picture camera operators and editors
Broadcast and sound engineering technicians and radio operators, and media and communication equipment workers, all other
Miscellaneous media and communication workers

NOTE: This Report has been produced by BFAMFAPhD contributors Julian Boilen and Vicky Virgin without pay. If you would like to donate money to our collective, please email us at: [email protected]

In Rent Burden, non-artist should just be All People (everywhere this applies) or Everyone

Edits I think are necessary to the "Explore you" section:

Your Name made The Project Title which looks like Project Image (link to image online) while renting a studio / desk / rehearsal space in Zip Code for Price per Time in Year.

[Add yourself to the project]

I think you should also:

• take out the size of the space (The space is about x or .)
• center the grey text where people write in their own info, so that it's more beautiful

NOTE: If you ARE able to link to an image online for people's projects, I think the image should be displayed below in a thumbnail/cropped way that actually looks good... if making the image display below takes too long at this point, just save those links to images on the backend so that Annelie can make a visualization with them later on.

I'm afraid the in the museum the browser will get lost on bfamfaphd.com and people won't come back to Census Report. Right now there is no link back at all. Maybe it should even time out and bounce back in the museum if no one has touched it for a while?

I thought you removed graphic design, but I still see it in Explore Artist in the drop down and under "all Artists"... if you want to include it, I think you should do it later, and then make Architects and Designers options, as well as all Related cultural producers, to compare to All Artists. For now, it shouldn't be there...

As a general rule, there should only be 3 type sizes on any page. Can you establish a S, M, and L type size, and stick to it throughout? It's working on all pages except Explore Artist, as the bar chart type size is way too small, and should just be the same as your other small type.

did I do it??

What do artists do for a living? This shows the relationship between an arts degree and a job for people living in New York City. Scroll down to see links between arts degrees (on the left) and jobs (on the right). <---- there's no period here

This doesn't need to be bold, and can say simply: Select a major:

Hello, Consistency and Grammar police here! Please add periods to sentences (both headings need periods: "...artists in NYC."), and add a colon at the end of "the following bachelors degrees..." Also, "Related Cultural Workers" can be "related cultural workers" unless you capitalize Designers and Architects.

I've also included a shot of some the strange graphic design style above the bar chart that could be bigger or use the styles on this page (some pixel polishing, but not that critical).

For consistency, I think there needs to be a sentence at the top of Explore: You, like this:

This shows the projects people make while renting spaces. Add your project.

This is minor: Watch out for chopped off times... the MONTH is missing the H due to something weird, I'm sure it's a quick fix

the display for jobs is cut off....

For consistency, please change this: Approximate Number of People in NYC in Each Creative Occupation to

Approximate number of people in NYC in each creative occupation:

I entered: My name is Caroline Woolard, and I made etched plexi statements while renting a studio in 11368 for $350.00 per month in 2014. Find out more about it at blog.art21.org.

but I saw: My name is Caroline Woolard, and I made etched plexi statements while renting a studio for $350.00 per month in 2014. Find out more about it at blog.art21.org.

Do you leave out the zip codes on purpose? It seems like a good thing to show...

Did you change the minimum sample size for Rent Burden? I see "not enough data" too quickly in this interactive part, and it makes me think it's broken. How can it be true that there's not enough data for black people in brooklyn?

This should just have a white background. In general, I don't think you need to implement detailed styles related to the main site.

There's a lot of space between the Pie Chart and the Bar Chart about artist occupations. I would really like to see this page given some design love, but at the very least, you could decrease the space between the two, and give the bar chart a heading.

You could also make it clear that the bar chart is NOT just of the artists we include in our Report, but is off all the fields you list above in the pie chart. I actually think you should make a bar chart that is ONLY of artists we include, or lighten/grey out the other occupations, so it's clear that we are not focusing on these at this time.

For the "all creative occupations" bar chart that reflects the pie chart but in depth, you could also make the bar chart's bars in the same colors of the pie chart above, corresponding to the occupation, so it's clear that you are showing Other Related Cultural Producers, Architects and Designers, and Artists. You could even label these buckets in the bar chart, and place them together, so that it's clear that this is another break-down of the pie chart.

This should be "Explore: Artist" not "Explore: Defining Artist" as that doesn't make sense. You could say "Explore: Artist Definition" if you think that is more clear.

Instead of "Define “Artist.” in the header, say "We define "artist" by job or degree."

Then edit this sentence below should cut this (to find data about artists) sorry, to say:

Using the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey Microdata from 2010-2012, BFAMFAPhD found data about “artists” in New York City by looking at “field of degree” or “primary occupation.” In this report, an “artist” is someone with an arts-related bachelors degree (see below for degrees we include) or someone who makes a living in the arts.

Didn't we exclude this? That's confusing, and impacts all charts...

Then instead of "By reported degree field." which is very serious jargon, you could replace it with this heading: "If we define artist by bachelors degree, there are # of artists in NYC."

Please keep the design as simple and clear as you have, throughout. It's beautiful as a site, so that's why I can focus on these minor design issues. The drop down also should not overlap with the type... there needs to be more space between Explore and the SubHead...

I don't think you need to label filters with "But show only..." (you don't have it for poverty rates, and it's fine I think).

compared to

Maybe this is feature creep, and stop me if it is, but I think adding median income for each occupation in Explore: Artist would be VERY helpful. It could even be added in the scroll over. In case you don't have that data from Vicky, I added something she sent me, so you could at least put median income for artists...

It could have this title, if it gets it's own image: People who make a living as artists in New York City have a median income of $25,000.

Somehow the BFAMFAPhD logo and "Census Report" are not justified to the text right below them. BFAMFAPhD is justified to the sentence below in everything but Poverty, but Census Report is never justified to the text below, and it should be.

I even wonder if you need Census Report in the right corner, but maybe it just looks weird when it's not justified to the sentence below. Also, the BFAMFAPhD should also link back to the homepage, but I know you're working on that ;)

To make this form more beautiful, the "art studio / desk / rehearsal space / apartment" field could just be a dropdown menu, which would help this form take up less space. "a project" should say "Project Name" so that people don't jus say "a painting" as we prefer that they say "Blue Newport" or whatever it's called, instead.

Can you place this in bold and edit the text?

And change the copy from "13% are professional artists" to "13% make a living as artists" as professional implies income but actually most artists define working hours per week as professional, regardless of pay...

Rather than "Artists and Non-Artists" I think it should say "All People in NYC" or just "All People"

Reflect changes in issue #1 .

The sudden use of a blue notification box is strange here. I think you should just use the same type style as you use at the top for "What do artists do..." for "Of all people..."

This style has never been used, and is strange. I think you can use the same type as above for this statement.