Tailoring Explanatory and Exploratory Data Visualisations with Colour
Creating two different designs made me think about how to use colour to tailor my data visualisation to different audiences.
Visualising the natural World around us – basic bar charts versus square area charts
I recently participated in both the March and April 2018 Story Telling with Data Challenges: Basic Bar Charts and Square Area Charts respectively published by Cole Knaflic. This got me thinking about the pros and cons of both a common, simple chart type such as the basic bar chart versus a more unusual, arguably more complex chart type such as the square area chart.
Visualising data on the top 10 exporting countries for drugs and medicines
Tell a story e.g. the USA is the only non-European country in the top 10 exporters for drugs and medicine.
Visualising how much profit the 25 wealthiest US companies make per second
I wanted to focus upon what proportion of the total profit per second the 25 wealthiest US companies made was due to a small number of companies such as Apple? To do this I used a Pareto Chart, which compares the cumulative percentage of profit made per second to the equivalent cumulative number of companies.
Visualising data on romantic preferences across the World
I decided to use colour more selectively to highlight the preference for personality over other characteristics.
Are Americans buying more fake or real Christmas Trees?
Americans are buying more fake Christmas Trees over time, but still prefer real ones.
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