February 18, 2018
Makeover Monday: Who gets all the medicine money?
I love learning something new! Let's take a look at the original viz:
What works well?
- Resizing the continents by their overall exports makes it obvious that Europe is the largest exporter.
- I hate packed bubbles, however in this view, the largest countries stand out by double encoding with color.
- Including the percentages for each continent provides needed context
What could be improved?
- The packed bubbles make comparisons overly difficult.
- The color legend uses unequal intervals.
- Plotting the data on a map doesn't add any context.
- There's no sense of overall ranking across all countries.
- If you ask "so what?", there's no answer.
The article that accompanied the viz provided quite a few interesting statistics. It would have been great if these were included in the original viz, but they weren't, so I decided to make something super simple that:
- Has an informative title and subtitle
- Provides context
- Provides insight
- Uses color effectively
That's it. Simple, quick. That's how I like my Makeover Mondays.
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New to Tableau and i want to participate in MakeOverMondays to improve my data visualization skills! Im excited to learn from the community, so any tips are welcome!
ReplyDeleteHow can I take the workbook to understand the steps you took to made it?
ReplyDeleteHi Ivan. On the bottom right of the toolbar at the bottom of the viz there's a download button.
DeleteHi, can I open it with Tableau Public? When I try to open the workbook, I'm just able to print the viz.
DeleteMaybe I need the Tableau Desktop?
Are you sure you’re not trying to open it with Tableau Reader? It should open with Public I believe.
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