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October 7, 2019

#MakeoverMonday: Bearwood Corporate Services - The Money Behind David Cameron's Conservative Party

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What a fascinating data set! More on that in a minute. First, let's have a look at this week's viz to makeover. It comes from The Electoral Commission and focuses on political donations in the UK, which are required to be reported.

SOURCE: THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION

WHAT WORKS WELL?
  • Placing the filters on the upper right let me know immediately that I can interact with the data to find my own story.
  • The bar chart is sorted in descending order.
  • The summary numbers provide some context, but not much.

WHAT COULD BE IMPROVED?
  • The bar chart would be easier to read if it was horizontal.
  • Why are all of the bars colored? There are way too many colors and they have no meaning.
  • The packed bubbles would be much better as a bar chart or BANs.

WHAT I DID
I started by exploring each field in the data set. Many of them didn't have information I found useful, so I hid all of those fields so that they would not distract from my analysis. 

As I explored the donors and who gave what to whom, I saw that Bearwood Corporate Services was donating A LOT to the Conservative Party over a period of a few years. I hadn't heard of it before so I did some research on Google and it turns out that they were pretty controversial and closely linked to the rise to power of David Cameron.

That's where my story begins...

April 13, 2015

Makeover Monday: David Cameron's Overseas Trips

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It's election season in the UK and The Guardian recently released some data related to Prime Minister David Cameron's travels around the World. They provided a table of all of the data at the bottom of their post, but the only viz they provided was this view aggregated by continent.


First, bubbles make comparisons harder than they need to; bar charts are much better for comparisons. This view also doesn't provide any addition insight. I can't answer a simple question like "Which countries did Cameron visit in Europe and when?"

I only had a few minutes this morning to create an alternative and here's what I came up with in about 15 minutes.


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