Blog | Eva Murray

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Makeover Monday | Week 12 | 2019: How do we really feel about women leaders?

by Eva Murray

The Reykjavik Index proved to be an excellent topic and data and charts to draw inspiration from and I wanted to see how the community would re-imagine the dataset.

Makeover Monday | Week 11 | 2019: Philadelphia Real Estate Transfers

by Eva Murray

For this week, we’re looking at Real Estate Transfers in Philadelphia. My focus is on how the Great Recession impacted the local property market.

Makeover Monday | Week 10 | 2019: World Development Indicators – Health and Equality

by Eva Murray

For week 10 we are collaborating with the team at Operation Fistula to support their mission and to bring more visibility and awareness to the issue of obstetric fistula (‘the worst thing you’ve never heard of’).

Makeover Monday | Week 9 | 2019: The economic value of the UK bicycle industry

by Eva Murray

For this week’s MakeoverMonday challenge, we look at data about bicycle imports to the UK from 2010 – 2016.

Makeover Monday | Week 8 | 2019: Which States produce the most wind energy?

by Eva Murray

This week we look at how much wind energy is produced in different US states

Makeover Monday | Week 7 | 2019: President Trump’s “Executive Time”

by Eva Murray

The president of the United States is a never ending source of news and analysis-worthy headlines. The recent leak of Trump’s daily schedule provided us with a nice dataset to work with for Makeover Monday and there was no hesitation to use it for this week’s challenge.

Makeover Monday | Week 6 | 2019: How Chinese New Year Compares With Thanksgiving

by Eva Murray

Sure, there is a super bowl going on, but this is my week, not Andy’s so instead of football we’re looking at Chinese New Year’s spending and how it compares to that for Thanksgiving.

Makeover Monday | Week 5 | 2019: Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI)

by Eva Murray

For week 5 we use data from the European Commission about the Digital Economy and Society Index, measuring digital performance for European countries. The original viz looks like this: What works well: Countries are sorted in descending order from highest to lowest...

Makeover Monday | Week 4 | 2019: Energy Use at 10 Downing St

by Eva Murray

I enjoy stumbling across interesting datasets and visualisations and this week that takes us to London, more specifically to 10 Downing St where the Prime Minister lives. The data contains electricity usage for the year 2017 and the original viz from Carbon Culture...