My 5 selections for this gallery. (Click any image to see creator’s process notes & viewer feedback/discussion in Storytelling With Data community.)
Max is going to do another major iteration on her World of Scripts infographic after our second critique session on it today. (Stay tuned; will add update here after she has uploaded it to SWD.)
theft-worthy:
- Choose different map projections to challenge viewers helpfully (with unfamiliarity / multiple approaches) and/or to reflect on the subject matter
- Focus attention by not showing all data (but clearly identify threshold criterion in headline); introducing focal countries in 2 stages
- Invite users in with a title question or prompt
- Facilitate understanding with consistent color cues throughout
- Choosing meaningful colors: blending with math! / mapping two variables
- Crafting accompanying text to explain meaningful design choices and highlight key findings
- Depicting fun categorical data with fun icons
improvable:
- Review considerations when visualizing death(s)
- (Re)organize panels with clear logic (small multiples) or coherent narrative sequence (infographic sections) | Use the caption-each test to check for clear story
- Label organizing logic where not readily obvious (e.g. descending count)
- Orient legend logically for reading direction (here, L-to-R)
- Disambiguate communicative choices (check that same/similar/dissimilar colors match same/similar/dissimilar relationship in what they represent)
Process note: Just assembling my Twitter content here with links and lightly reworded/grouped lists took ~50 minutes. Daily weekday tweets are cumulatively valuable. Next up: adaptations for mobile!
also revisit:
[digest my April 2 list by categories]