Mashups WK 11: Final Project
For my final project, I decided to create a data visualization on beer statistics using Google Charts. I could not find any APIs that were related or that I wanted to work with, so I decided to search for the data online myself.
After doing some research, I found some interesting statistics about beer:
From my research, I decided to display the world’s biggest beer drinkers as well as the world’s top beer consumption and production companies. I manually put in the data in liters per capita.
Then I designed a background image for my website to match the beer theme:
After talking with Calli, I decided to put all my data into a JSON file so that it would be easier for the system to pull in the info. It would also be more organized code-wise. So I created a JSON file and called it using ajax:
Then I uploaded my website onto my local server.
Below is a screenshot of my final product: