For this makeover, I wanted to practice annotations on charts. Annotations help our readers better understand the context and our argument with the graph. They can also help us highlight specific points and show readers what to focus on.
January 2019 SWDchallenge is all about going beyond our comfort zones – to make a visualization using a new tool. I make most of my visualizations using R, Excel or Tableau. For this challenge I decided to try Datawrapper. I am a huge fan of blog posts on Datawrapper. I have never used Datawrapper before,…
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…