Original What works well? The map gives a good view of the state of global press freedom in 2017. The colors instantly show that most of Africa, South America, Eurasia and Asia do not have a free press. What does not work? The legend being an ordinal variable, a color saturation may worked better than…
This week's MakeOverMonday dataset comes from XWord Info. Here is the original graph What works well? The title is clear. The time is alone the X-axis, which is how we normally visualize time. What could be better? The 7 lines create a spaghetti effect. It is not easy to see the trend of a single…
Halloween just went by and it is Diwali this week in India - which means there are a lot of sweets around. I am on a no-sugar diet now, so no candies or sweets for me. To satisfy my sweet tooth, I thought it would be fun to use a candy data set to learn…
Visualizing Survey Data Working back to back on 3 survey visualization projects, I have come to realise that visualizing survey data can be pretty standard for the most part. Yes, every dataset from a survey will be different and insights will be different. But the ways in which we can visualize survey data can be…
This week's MakeOverMonday challenge is a dataset from the website ProPublica. ProPublica tracked down political and taxpayer spending at Trump properties since Trump declared his candidacy in late 2015, to May 2018. From ProPublica: Since Watergate, presidents have actively sought to avoid conflicts between their public responsibilities and their private interests. Every president since Jimmy…
The #SWDChallenge this month is a makeover project. The challenge instructions come with a wonderful article by Elizabeth Ricks of SWD on the art of undertaking chart makeovers. I found the article very insightful and I took a lot of notes. In a nutshell, here are a few steps to get started with doing "good…
This visualization project was created as part of the MakeOverMonday project. Dataset The dataset for this project is hosted on Data.world The original visualization My goals with this visualization project: My main goal with this project was to make it Explanatory. I set out to answer these questions with this project: Where does Nike have the most number…