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March 6, 2017

Makeover Monday: Who are YouTube's Biggest Gaming Stars?

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This week Eva chose this simple table from SocialBlade of the top YouTube gaming channels for the Makeover Monday topic.


What works well?
  • Tables are great for looking up specific values. Want to know how many views and/or subscribers the 73rd highest channel has? A table makes finding that really easy.
  • Tables are precise; they provide exact values.
  • The table is sorted by the rank, making it easy to process who is most popular.

What doesn't work?
  • There's no real story to the data.
  • Tables aren't engaging.
  • Comparisons are difficult - How do the top 20% compare to the rest?

Really, there's not a whole lot more to say. I started this week with a Google search for some inspiration. I was looking for graphics that caught my eye, interesting statistics, good colors, etc. In the end, I chose to use the colors from this visualisation for my palette because I thought they fit well with YouTube's primary red.

I wanted to answer two simple questions with my visualisation:
  1. How do the top 20% of channels compare to the rest? Do they fit the Pareto principle?
  2. How many views do the top 10 channels have and how can I best compare them?

Originally I created a long dashboard, but found it too hard to see the entire story in one view, so I've switched to a wider view. Click on it for the interactive version.

February 15, 2016

Makeover Monday: How Does Video Game Playing Vary by Demographic?

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This week’s Makeover Monday has a mix of good and bad parts. It comes to use from Forbes.


Let’s review this from top to bottom.
  • The video game font they chose for the title is cute, yet the title itself doesn’t reflect what contained in the entire visualisation.
  • I don’t understand why they chose to use a grey-to-white background. What value does that add? Remember, everything you include in a viz should have a purpose. If not, remove it.
  • I really like the adults vs. teens section. In particular, I like how the bars start on opposite ends and come towards each other.
  • Then we get to the parents vs. non-parents section. Why didn’t they continue the theme from the adults vs. teens section? Instead they chose some weird radial chart type thing that makes comparisons very difficult both between parents and non-parents and across platforms within a single category. Basically, this section is a disaster.
  • The images of people playing videos games on a giant screen is cute, but it doesn’t enhance the viz in my opinion.
My makeover of this viz is focused on simplification and making the comparisons easier. For starters, I created a summary at the top to compare all of the demographics. I then used the bar chart idea from the original to break each set of demographics down by the platform. Notice that each of my charts is in the same order by platform. I also tried to incorporate better titles into my sections.

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