PHO X FAUX

2024 BFA Thesis

24x55 Data Visualization

Telling the story of Pho doesn’t exist without the context of how the Vietnamese came to the United States. Under the United Nations Higher Commsioner for Refugees which tracks Immigrants - Over 1 million Vietnamese fled Vietnam to come to the United States.

Due to war and search for a better life, Vietnamese came in almost anything that could float. Reports of 400,000 - 600,000 people died trying to cross the oceans to reach saftey.

Using Cavalry 2d to create data viz maps. I was able to visualize the story of the Vietnamese people migrating from their homeland in relation to how Pho became so popular. Which allowed for a deeper story between Pho, myself, and the Vietnamese people.

Google Trends allowed me to search interests based on google searches for Pho and other soups. This alllowed me to take the data from the line chart and re-map those data points into a more refined designed look and feel. Using color and length to drive the data in a circular composition.

Data was taken from United Nations Refugee Website
https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/.

Google Trends

Vietnamese Around the world

Visualizing 7,000 Pho Restraunts

Comparing Pho to others

Vietnamese to the U.S

Pho X Faux