Blog | Eva Murray

Nudges, Ideas and a sprinkle of career advice

This is where you’ll read from me. It’s a mix of nudges that encourage you to take the next bold step, ideas that help you make a change and advice so you can avoid the mistakes I made along the way.

From my keyboard to you. No ChatGPT involved, just a bunch of honest writing, usually done in the morning hours before the world wakes up.
I hope you enjoy it and I’d love to hear from you, so feel free to comment on these posts.

#MakeoverMonday Week 8 2021: Protests Against Limiting Abortion Rights in Poland

by Eva Murray

This week brings a challenging topic. One that requires all of us to slow down a bit rather than rush to work with the data. Topics that are polarising and/or taboo in society give us analysts an extra bit of responsibility treat the data carefully, check our assumptions and conclusions and be mindful of the wording we use to draw attention to a topic.

#MakeoverMonday Week 7 2021: What’s the point of Valentine’s Day?

by Eva Murray

Not a big fan of Valentine’s Day myself but this dataset was amusing to go through. It’s interesting how men and women see the purpose of Valentine’s Day so differently!

#MakeoverMonday Week 6 2021: Perceived Obstacles to Gender Equality

by Eva Murray

In all countries women more than men consider the burden of domestic duties and responsibilities to have more of a detrimental effect on equality.

#MakeoverMonday Week 5 2021: Renewables Overtake Fossil Fuels in Europe

by Eva Murray

Looking at different countries and comparing their numbers I noticed that among all EU27 countries, Latvia was the only one where production from renewables decreased since 2000, while all other countries went to increase their production from renewables.

#MakeoverMonday Week 4 2021: Indian Coal Mine Production

by Eva Murray

A visualization of data about Indian coal mines and their production outputs.

#MakeoverMonday Week 3 2021: What’s Warming The Earth?

by Eva Murray

This week I created a bar chart that shows that temperatures have risen progressively over the past few decades.

#MakeoverMonday Week 2 2021:

by Eva Murray

For this #Viz5 challenge I focused on Eswatini and the hopeful trends related to HIV infections and AIDS related deaths in the small African nation.

#MakeoverMonday Week 1 2021: The Great Bicycle Boom of 2020

by Eva Murray

As we turn over the calendar to 2021, we also kick off another year of #MakeoverMonday. This week’s visualization challenge is about the trail usage of people in the US, measured through observational data in outdoor areas where trails provide access to nature for people across the country.