Dataset The dataset for MakeOverMonday project is hosted on data.world. Original Visualization What works in the original visualization? The visual represents the overtourism and undertoursim magnitudes in a single graph. The terms overtourism and undertourism are explained well. What doesn’t work in the original visualization? Circular shapes are not best suited for comparison and I…
This week’s MakeoverMonday data is on Andy Kriebel’s Amex card transactions for 2016. My goal with this visualization was to understand and highlight two aspects of Andy’s credit card usage. Where does he spend the most money and what are the nature of the transactions? Does he spend a lot of money at once? Or…
The creative part of my brain has been asleep for a very long time 🙁 If you are like me, one way to get your creative juices flowing is to sketch on paper. This is a post with sketches on how to visualize survey data. There are so many ways to show survey data….
This week I decided to work on the data from the Makeover Monday Project. I used Tableau to create the visual. Using a tool like Tableau, I realized, offers great flexibility in the number of charts I can create in the exploration phase. Having created most of my previous visuals using Excel, this was a…
Today is National Bean Day. As per Wikipedia, there are about 40,000 bean varieties in the world and only a fraction of these are mass produced for global consumption. Being a vegetarian, I am always on the look out for vegetarian protein sources. And beans are one of the best sources of vegetarian protein. To…
The only way to learn visualization is to create more visuals. If you are like me and struggle to find data or topics to visualize, here is a project for you to work along. Visual of the Day is a project to create a visual story based on the daily celebration topic from NationalDayCalendar. Today is…
As the Olympic Games and fervor go on for a few more days, FiveThirtyEight.com published an article early this week, titled “Hosting the Olympics is a Terrible Investment“. The ongoing Rio Olympics had overrun its budget by 50% by the time the Olympic torch was lit at the opening ceremonies. What sort of investment goes into hosting…