Assignment 1

            After sifting through all the information, charts and numbers, I have created a graphic focusing on the number of fatal vehicle accidents throughout the time of the day.  I analyzed numbers from the year 2009 as it was the most recent information available.  The information portrayed will give the reader a great idea of what times of the day are safest to travel and which times of day one must be most cautious when traveling. 

            The information is set up in 3 hour intervals beginning at 12:00am through 11:59pm.  For each interval, the number of fatalities that took place during that time was given for each day of the week.  I totaled the number of fatalities of the week for each time interval.  I chose to represent the total number of fatal vehicle accidents in a week from 12:00am to 2:59am, 3:00am to 5:59am, 6:00am to 8:59am, 9:00am to 11:59am, 12:00pm to 2:59pm, 3:00pm to 5:59pm, 6:00pm to 8:59pm, and 9:00pm to 11:59pm.

            I created a bar graph for each of the time intervals to ensure the correct ratio between the bars.  I color coded the bars in a gradient of blues from dark, to light, and dark again.  These color choices helps enforce the theme of the time of day.  I arranged the bars in a vertical stack so they would be seen as a continuous time (the span of one full day).  I created the graphic in a way that it could be presented as a bleed on the edge of an article.