Someone mentioned this graphic on Twitter for makeovermonday and after reading the article and looking at the viz I decided to take a crack at it now. My goal was to first recreate the viz using Tableau, this was for practice and try and understand the original intent. After doing that I wanted to redesign keeping as close to the original design as posable. I just wanted to find a few small changes that would help improve story telling. Along the way I learned a few new techniques and so I tried them out as well. Below you will find the original graphic as well as my remake and redesign. Let me know what you think and what I could have done better. Thanks
Original
My Remake in Tableau
My Redesigns
Using two views
Using single view and small multiples technique.
hi Peter,
Good work, and thanks for sharing...trying to re-create (exactly in your case) another Viz in Tableau is a great way to learn.
I think your version is far easier (than the original) to see what the Viz is saying...btw here is an interesting blog defending the blanket rejection of all pie-charts! www.datavizmyths.com (which has some merits), however in this case I think the bars are far more quickly digested (by me anyway).
I did have a quick play with your version, and came up with this slight change (I have a general preference for horizontal bars...but this is a personal choice!)...let me know what you recon?
