• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• Simple title that explains what the viz is about
• Cancer types are sorted from highest to lowest based on the five-year survival rate
• "All cancers" is sorted at the top since it's the overall statistic
• Using arrows to indicate improving or declining
• Using different colored dots for each time period
• Including an explanation for how the data came about

• The subtitle is long. I had to read it a couple times to understand it.
• The viz overall feels kind of busy.
• By using directional arrows, the change over time is lost. The change isn't linear, but the design could be interpreted that way.
• Color the arrows by increasing or decreasing. Uterus and Cervix Uteri cancer survival rates have decreased, but that could easily be missed.

• Incorporatde the change over time
• Used BANs for the first period and the last period measured and the difference
• Used a big dot to indicate a reduction in survival rate
• Used row banding to guide the eye from left to right (taking a lesson from last week's Workout Wednesday)
• Provided an option to filter by race and gender
• Used a set to split the view into the top 9 on the left and the rest on the right; my first version was one long viz, but I didn't like how I had to scroll.
• Used reference bands vertically and horizontally to give the labels space on the ends of the lines

• Nice interactivity
• Informative tooltips
• Summary in the subtitle provides some context
• Including a definition of an internet user
• Highlighting on the timeline the block for the year you are seeing
• Providing the context of "per 100 people"
• Per 100 people makes it easy to understand because you can think of them like percentages

What could be improved?

• Include a more engaging title.
• Stoplight colors work ok for me, but not for the color-blind folks.
• The color scale in this case makes anything below 75% look bad. Is that really the case? Isn't providing more access over the years more important?
• Why are years without data included on the timeline?
• Having to flick through the years prevents you from seeing the change over time.
• Smaller countries get lost on filled maps
• Needs more context

What were my goals?