I bought in a random selection of objects from my room so at first I found it difficult to find a way to categorise them so I could compare them in a graph. I decided to compare sentimental value and what is actually important to me in my day to day life. I gave each object a rating out of 100 for sentimental value, then calculated how many times I used it in a week and compared it with price into one coloured scatter graph. It allowed me to see if I had over paid for an item or if it had good value for money by particularly comparing the weekly usage and the cost as the item with the lowest price and highest use had the best value for money. I then put the sentimental values and the weekly usage into two seperate billion-dollar-gram graphs so I could visually see how important one object was by comparing them side by side. It illustrates the information in a much more interesting way than the graph as I find the graph to look very formal and doesn’t include a lot of graphical elements. The concept of calculating an objects value for money has given me an idea to create a price comparison and product review phone application.

Sentiment & Weekly Usage

Product comparisonApplication

The idea for this phone application is to compare product ratings and customer reviews against the price of the object to determine a figure of its “value for money”. Unlike most other price compare applications, the app may not suggest the cheapest product as the best, because it may have tendencies to break or receive poor reviews from customers. It is a multi functional programme allowing people to put in a keyword e.g watercolour to then search reviews and costs and find out which product is “Audits best buy” and it allows them to scan the products bar code instore to find out if it is for sale elsewhere at a cheaper price. The barcode scanner can also be used to compare two different products, if the customer is unsure about which one to buy. It can then show the user where to get it from, and either direct them to the appropriate website or give them directions to the retailer using the phones gprs signal.