In this assignment you will redesign a failed plot, to practice the guidelines and rules for creating plots.
Find a complex enough chart that seems to have gone wrong in some aspects, e.g. here http://viz.wtf/. If you are unsure about the complexity, ask your teacher. If you think it is hard to start you can read up on how to create infographics in the following document: Infographics Design Process.
Recreate the plot but make an improved version. You can use fake data if you don't have the actual data. You are allowed to change the chart type. Include both a screenshot of the original and the result of your redesign in your solution.
Describe your design process by talking about data types, design rules, visual encoding, use of color and any other consideration you have made.
You are allowed to use any tool you think is best suited for the task, e.g. Python, Tableau, Illustrator or even accurate hand-drawings.
include a screenshot to the original image
Finding a good data source about the Zika virus was harder then expected. Since the first image/chart was mainly about the concerns of the Zika Virus, I went and looked around for that. Sadly, besides some results of a survey about how worried the users were, there wasn't much to find.
Afterwards I tried to look for datasets about the Zika virus in general, to be sure it still had revelance whatsoever. I found the dataset I used above at the following source: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/82ed7629-cc47-43a1-8c09-09eb5dff868e/resource/bd784be4-b11d-4fff-a641-7ef4e7c8e9e8/download/18.08.2016_Update_Zika_Cases.xlsx
It took some getting used to creating charts with this new data. While it was nicely formatted for easy use in the chart, there were tons of null values that I had to remove instead of making the charts inaccurate.
In retrospect I could have tried to make more links between several points of data, such as if the weather, population or other external fields could have some interesting influence on it altogether.
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