Original

Analysis of the original

Here are a series of questions I use to analyse a chart.

• Where are my eyes drawn?: My eyes are drawn to the blue arc for G7 average.
• What works in this visual?: The circular bars are sorted. Good use of colors to represent countries and average.
• Identify clutter, make note of anything you find confusing: Circular/radial bar charts look cool but are very hard to read. The bar lengths can be misleading because each bar is judged by its angle, not length.
• Is the take-away action clear?: No, there is no takeaway action
• Are pre attentive attributes used to draw user’s attention?: The use of a different color for G7 average draws user’s attention to the average.

Makeover

For this makeover, I chose to focus on 2 messages.

• The Raykjavik index for individual countries compared to average and the goal.
• The gender dissonance in Reykjavik index.

To show the Reykjavik index for individual countries, I used a simple bar chart but formatted it to have labels and values on the bars.

For the gender dissonance I used a range plot.

If you want to try own makeover, here is the data.