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#MakeoverMonday 2020 Week 25: Amazon’s tiny profits explained
Fos this week’s #MakeoverMonday challenge, Charlie picked a chart about Amazon’s revenue vs profit. Line charts are a great way to capture time-series data at different levels of granularity.
#MakeoverMonday 2020 Week 24: The rise of soccer
In #MakeoverMonday we naturally mix heavier topics with some lighter and easier ones. We also aim to have a good variety of datasets. For this week I chose soccer in the US as a topic.
#MakeoverMonday 2020 Week 23: Animal-free products consumption in Great Britain
This week Charlie chose a viz about the eating habits of people in the UK. Plant-based foods and a plant-based diet have become more popular, with an increasing number of people also choosing to go vegan. The below visualization is from Statista who asked people how...
#MakeoverMonday 2020 Week 22: Safe Houses for Girls and Women At Risk of FGM
Our collaboration with Operation Fistula for #Viz5 is here with another dataset. This time the topic is pretty horrific, which makes it all the more important to talk about and tackle. We’re looking at FGM, female genital mutilation, and more specifically the safe houses provided by nonprofits in Tanzania for girls and women who are at risk.
#MakeoverMonday 2020, Week 21: Visualizing 40 Years of Music Industry Sales
For this week’s #MakeoverMonday, Charlie picked a dataset about music industry sales in the US.
#MakeoverMonday 2020, Week 20: Auto Insurance Rate by State in 2020
For this week’s MakeoverMonday challenge we are looking at car insurance rates – the minimum and the maximum – for each US state. There are significant differences between the states and the visualization I found that aims to show these differences is in need of a makeover.
#MakeoverMonday Week 19 2020: World Happiness Report
This week we’re looking at the World Happiness Report 2020, which lists over 150 countries in order of their reported happiness, based on a survey conducted by Gallup.
#MakeoverMonday 2020, Week 18: Obstetric Fistula in Madagascar
For week 18 we are tackling another #Viz5 subject, this time the topic of obstetric fistula, which is the focus of our #MakeoverMonday collaboration partner Operation Fistula.
#MakeoverMonday 2020, Week 17: Pump prices over time
For week 17 we’re looking at UK petrol and diesel prices at a weekly level.
#Makeovermonday Week 2020, Week 16: Greenhouse Gas Emissions across the food supply chain
As we all eat multiple times a day, I decided to look for a visualization about food and found one about the emissions linked to different types of foods.
#MakeoverMonday 2020, Week 15: Messi vs Ronaldo
This week it's a lighter topic. Football. I like it! Charlie chose a Viz from Soccerment, comparing goals per match in La Liga by Messi vs Ronaldo. Here is the original: https://soccerment.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Messi_CRonaldo_GoalsPerMatch-768x401.png I wrote...
#MakeoverMonday 2020, Week 14: Unpaid work – allocation of time and time-use
It is another week for a Viz5 dataset as part of our collaboration with Operation Fistula. This month, we’re looking at the topic of unpaid work.