Interesting visualization, but could use some design work. The color palette should me more muted. Check out the Adobe Kuler API (http://kuler.adobe.com/) for creating attractive color schemes. -MH

I agree with the guy above. Theres a lot of potential for a really nice color piece here.

With infovisualization projects like this it’s more standard if you put all the info somehow on one page. The next button is awkward. You can have a menu for selecting beauty, anger, sadness, etc.

I really admire your use of Mechanical Turk — that’s terrific. Great investigation, very rigorous, interesting data source you have created and collected. I encourage you to open-source your data-set (an excel spreadsheet or .csv would be fine). Some interesting discoveries, some of which confirm expectations. Some comments from the Turk people would actually be helpful. Perhaps size the pie charts based on the number of respondents from that country!

Golan: We get it about the Mechanical Turk!
Alright, alright — GL 😉

I think it would be useful if there was number of participants from each country.

Here’s a pretty interesting study of color compared to emotions you might want to check out: http://www.emotionallyvague.com/ I especially like how they’ve displayed their information.

it is kinda too bad though that the mechanical turk people werent the “largest” or most populated countries. i think china (especially red) and russia’s info wouldhave been really interesting. would be interesting to see if there are color changes not just across cultures, but also geography (close to equator, further away, north vs south hemispheres…)

Really interesting topic! The content looks solid, although I kind of wish that the layout was a little prettier

Maybe if you clicked on a country it could take you to a new screen that has the comments about why people from that country chose the colors they chose. Pull out some common keywords and you might get some interesting word associations too (such as the sadness => mourning example).