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December 1, 2019

#MakeoverMonday: How have annual wages changed for union vs. non-union employees?

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Four weeks to go with Makeover Monday 2019. We've had lots of interesting vizzes to makeover and lots of interesting data. This week, I wanted to pick a simple visualization and simple data.


What works well?

  • I like the handwriting font. It makes the viz look fun.
  • The colors are distinct enough.
  • Using shading on the title as a legend

What could be improved?

  • Some hands are holding another, some are not. What does that mean? Does two hands mean union? If so, I don't understand why they join where they do.
  • Using weekly wages is a tough concept to grasp. Why not convert it to annual wages?
  • The viz is clearly not designed for any sort of precision or comparison.

What I did

  • I really liked this Viz of the Day recently by Spencer Bauke and thought this was a good data set to try to emulate his work.
  • I wanted to use parameter actions to allow the user to change the comparison year.
  • I also wanted to use set actions like Spencer did, but this data wasn't structured in a way that made sense to try to do that.
  • This turned out to be very good practice for LOD expressions.
  • I loved using containers to lay all of this out!! It's a lot of work, but much easier to get everything to line up and all be the same size.

Here's my Makeover Monday week 49. Click on the image for the interactive version.

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