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November 12, 2019

#MakeoverMonday: Literacy Rates Around the World

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It's TC19 week and Eva has provided a data set about literacy rates around the World for the 1200+ people in Vegas to viz live plus the hundreds more of you that aren't live with us.

Here's the original viz:


What works well?

  • The data by region is ordered alphabetically, making it easy to find each region.
  • The bar chart is sorted by largest to smallest.
  • Nice filtering options

What could be improved?

  • A diverging color palette should only be used when there is a logical midpoint or goal. I don't see those in this viz.
  • The squares are hard to understand.
  • I don't find the map very useful. It would be more useful if it zoomed in when a region is selected.
  • There's no title.
  • There's too much text.
  • The bar chart seems to go out past the edge, or at least visually it appears that way.

What I did

  • I created a KPI scorecard so that I could understand the patterns for the overall or an individual country. Are literacy rates improving or regressing?
  • Show the distribution of the rates of the countries within each region
  • Within each region, which countries are above or below the median for that region?
  • How has the literacy rate changed over time?
  • Allow simple filtering options.

I drew inspiration from Workout Wednesday week 51 2018: Container Fun from Rody Zakovich. I love finding reasons to practice techniques I've tried before and want to master. Consider challenging yourself to learn something new each week.

Enjoy!

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