This post recounts my experience building my first ever Iron Viz feeder contest submission. View my complete viz on Tableau public: INVISIBLE WALLS: The Reality of Racial Segregation in America. View all the Iron Viz Geospatial submissions on the Tableau Public blog. Finding a story to tell The first order of business was to decide […]
Author Archives: Marc Soares
Makeover Monday: Employment Growth in the G7
The subject of this week’s Makeover Monday is a pair of pie charts displaying employment data from the G7. The chart is used in an article on Business Insider, but the original source is a report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers. These charts are used to support the conclusion that the United […]
Makeover Monday: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation
This week’s #MakeoverMonday dataset presented a lot of options for visualization. The data is from the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD), a national report that scores and ranks the relative “deprivation”, or poverty level, across Scotland. The population is divided into “datazones”, which are each associated with a local authority. Each datazone is evaluated on seven […]
Makeover Monday: U.S. National Debt
This week’s #MakeoverMonday features a really simple dataset: the size of the U.S. national debt ($19.5 trillion) compared to that of the rest of the world combined ($39 trillion). I aimed to maintain simplicity in my visualization, representing the debt in blocks of $500 billion:
Canadian Federal Election Results
It’s been one year since Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada swept into power. Here’s the viz I created last year to explore the results of the most recent Canadian federal elections: