Water Footprint Calculator for NatGeo
by Robert Zimmerman
posted: August 5, 2010
One of the more challanging projects we've ever taken on, The Water Footprint Calculator for National Geographic took us about one month to complete start to finish. There are hundreds of drawings involved and hundreds upon hundreds of lines of javascript that run the show.
The data was provided to us by NatGeo, so fortunately we didn't have to do all the research for this as well. It was a huge project, but you can take the survey in less than two minutes. We sort of felt like the cooks who spend weeks preparing a Thanksgiving dinner that will be gobbled up in three minutes!
The entire thing is written in javascript. It's wild!
Below are some screen shots.
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Part of the calculation we had to make is based on a persons zip code. NatGeo provided the data that we could grab off their server for average water use in different regions of the country.
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As you adjust your spending habits down for clothes purchases, the duck undresses!
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As you adjust your spending habits down for furniture purchases, the room gets less populated with stuff!
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