Informed Omnivore: Visualizing Organic Food Production in Canada

This project report documents a design study in the domain of organic agriculture, and presents Informed Omnivore, an exploratory analysis tool for visualizing the Canadian organic food industry. A goal of this application is to provide consumers with the information necessary to make informed choices when buying local or organic food. I provide an overview of the domain, task, and data addressed by the application, followed by a description of the information visualization solution. This is followed by an analysis of the solution's strengths and weaknesses. This report concludes with a discussion of potential areas for future work. The contribution of Informed Omnivore is a demonstration of information visualization techniques applied to domain of organic agriculture, motivating casual users to make sustainable and healthy food choices.