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Week 31: Big Mac Index

Aug 5, 2018

Week 31 was a collaboration with The Economist to help them see new and effective ways of visualizing The Big Mac Index.

Week 30: Parental leave in the OECD

Jul 27, 2018

For week 30 we challenged the community to improve on a bar chart published in an OECD report on parental leave systems in countries around the world.

Week 29: Historical NBA Team Spending Against the Cap

Jul 21, 2018

The #MakeoverMonday community loves sports data! This week, we looked at historical NBA team spending versus the salary cap.

Week 28: Volcano Eruptions

Jul 13, 2018

This week I provided a dataset containing Volcano Eruptions from 1436 volcanoes. An exciting topic that hopefully everyone else enjoyed as well.

Week 27: Rat Sightings in New York City

Jul 7, 2018

Week 27 was all about New York’s rats. Where are they? How many have been reported? Is the situation getting better?

Week 26: London Cycle Hire Usage

Jun 29, 2018

We have reached the 2018 half-way mark and this week saw the community tackle 58 million records of bicycle hire data for London’s ‘Boris Bikes’.

Week 25: U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report

Jun 23, 2018

For Makeover Monday week 25, the community visualized flu trends in America. The recap covers lessons about taking time to understand the data.

Week 24: Tourism Density Index

Jun 15, 2018

This week’s recap about the Tourism Density Index comes to you from Berlin, where I am playing tourist myself and enjoying a few days in the capital.

The UK recently release data on the gender pay gap at companies across the country. For week 23, the Community created lots of great visualizations to communicate the disparity amongst many companies.

Week 22: The World’s Most Expensive Prime Property

Jun 2, 2018

For week 22 we used a simple dataset about prime property prices in selected cities around the world.

Week 21: Premier League Predictions vs. Reality

May 26, 2018

The Premier League season has come to a close. How well did the Guardian predict the table? The #MakeoverMonday community shows you how well they did.

Week 20: Congestion in major European Cities

May 18, 2018

Andy and I are huge fans of simplicity and this week's dataset was nice and simple, giving everyone a chance to stick to the basics if they want to and enjoy the nice (Northern Hemisphere) spring weather instead of spending many hours building vizzes. We asked you to...

Week 19: Toughest Sport by Skill

May 12, 2018

What is the toughest sport by skill according to American sports experts? Plus lessons about complex metrics and using lines for discrete values.

Week 18: Bee Colony Loss

May 4, 2018

Bee Colony Loss is a serious topic that impacts all of us and the environment we live in, so we visualized data for the US this week to highlight the problem.

Week 17: Ecological Footprint per Capita

Apr 28, 2018

Week 17 was a collaborating with Global Footprint Network to raise awareness about our ecological footprint on Earth Day

Week 16: Zambia Southern Province Confirmed Malaria Cases

Apr 20, 2018

We were delighted to collaborate with PATH.org this week and in particular use simulated data from their Visualize No Malaria project.

Week 15: Arctic Sea Ice Extent

Apr 14, 2018

The Arctic is melting and this week the Makeover Monday Community helped tell the story of our rising seas.

Week 14: World Wine Production

Apr 7, 2018

For week 14, we challenged the Makeover Monday community to create data stories from a data set about global wine production

Week 13: What is the UK’s Favorite Chocolate Bar?

Mar 30, 2018

The goal for week 13 was to answer a simple question: Which chocolate bar do Brits prefer the most?

Week 12: UK Pet Population in 2017

Mar 23, 2018

For week 12 we asked the community to work with data about the UK’s pet population, comparing different animals and their popularity as pets.

Week 11: Growth in Irish Whiskey Sales

Mar 17, 2018

We saw the creativity come out during week 11 as the vizzers came out trying to win some whiskey!

Week 10: What Policymakers Know About Women and Girl Issues

Mar 9, 2018

This week we’re collaborating with Equal Measures 2030 and Tableau Public for International Women’s Day.

St. Patrick’s Day Special

Mar 9, 2018

Makeover Monday week 11 is going to have a whisky theme and prizes!

Week 9: World Economic Freedom

Mar 2, 2018

#MakeoverMonday Week 9 2018 Recap: World Economic Freedom | This week’s lessons are about highlighting and working with an index.

Week 8: Where does your Medicine come from?

Feb 23, 2018

After last week’s Olympic medal focus, this week we shifted gears completely and brought you data about the value of pharmaceutical drug exports by country from 2013-2017.

Week 7: The Winter Olympics

Feb 16, 2018

It’s time for the Winter Olympic Games! For week 7, we visualized historical medal winners from Games gone past.

Week 6: Baseball Demographics 1947 – 2016

Feb 9, 2018

February is Black History Month and we challenged the Makeover Monday community to join the collaboration with Tableau and other data projects including Storytelling with Data, Viz for Social Good and Data for Democracy to visualize diversity.

Week 5: What the Most Profitable Companies Make per Second

Feb 2, 2018

Week 5 looked at the top 25 most profitable companies per second in the Fortune 500. Also two lessons learned about scatter plots and assumptions about the data set.

Week 4: Migration of Turkey Vultures in North and South America

Jan 27, 2018

The dataset contained migration data for turkey vultures in North and South America and came from a research paper studying the patterns of their migration.

Week 3: U.S. Household Income Distribution by State

Jan 21, 2018

For week 3, we looked at income distribution in the US and learned lessons about attention to detail and sense checking your data.

Week 2: Looks vs Personality

Jan 12, 2018

For this week’s makeover we looked at survey data analysing responses to the question of what is most important for people in a romantic partner.

Week 1: U.S. Per Capita Consumption of Poultry and Livestock

Jan 6, 2018

For #MakeoverMonday week 1, the Community looked at U.S. Per Capita Consumption of Poultry and Livestock. This week, there are 5 lessons for you.

Week 52: Christmas tree sales in the US

Dec 29, 2017

For the last week of the year I chose Christmas data after Andy made me do it. I had initially picked a really cute data set but don’t worry it will come in the new year. So this time we looked at Christmas tree sales in the US. Are you buying real or fake trees?

Week 51: Global Temperature Anomalies

Dec 24, 2017

With two weeks to go in the year, Eva and I thought it would be good to give everyone one last chance this year to play with a massive dataset. For week 51, I took 176M record collected by Ken Black via NOAA of global temperature readings, used Alteryx to upload the...

Makeover Monday in 2018

Dec 20, 2017

Today Andy and I revealed our plans for the coming year and what we will change and improve about Makeover Monday to continue delivering value for the community and to further grow the project.

Week 50: Barrier Free Singapore

Dec 15, 2017

For week 50 we teamed up with Tableau Singapore to bring you a data visualization challenge looking at building accessibility in Singapore.

Week 49: The Cost of a Curry at Wetherspoon

Dec 10, 2017

Only a couple more weeks and we'll be done with Makeover Monday 2017 edition. This year sure has flown by! Eva finally caught me up on the plans for 2018, which we'll share on December 20. Sign up for the webinar here. If you're wondering why I chose "The Cost of a...

Makeover Monday collaborates with Tableau Singapore

Dec 6, 2017

Next week we’re collaborating with Tableau Singapore to build on the great work they have done with students at a recent Academic Day

Week 48: The World as 100 People

Dec 3, 2017

100 weeks of #MakeoverMonday. We may be going on about it a bit... well, it is a significant milestone and one we've truly enjoyed reaching together with all of you, our community of contributors who create vizzes and data stories every week, no matter what data we...

Week 47: Snapchat is Tops with American Teens

Nov 24, 2017

We're almost there everyone! 47 weeks down, five to go! Keep up the amazing work! This week we tried to get inside the brains of American teens by analysing their favorite social networks over the past three years. The data set contained only 24 records, which...

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Nov 21, 2017

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Week 46: The World’s Top Cities for Sustainable Public Transport

Nov 17, 2017

After last week’s smashing results with endless great vizzes and submissions for Makeover Monday, we have another strong week behind us with many excellent visualizations built on a dataset about sustainable public transport in cities around the world.

Week 45: Life Expectancy at Birth

Nov 13, 2017

The Makeover Monday Community never ceases to amaze me! What a week! A really simple data set, yet way over 250 different visualisation. You all inspire us! There's a lot to cover this week, so let's get to it. MAKEOVER MONDAY LIVE! Eva and I ran separate Makeover...

Week 44: Mapped – the countries with the most bank holidays

Nov 4, 2017

For week 44 I chose a dataset that wasn’t easy but contained geographical data and dealt with public holidays around the world.

Week 43: How Frequent Is My Myers-Briggs Type?

Oct 31, 2017

Makeover Monday week 43 looked at the personality types of Americans and how we compare to them

Week 42: Formula E

Oct 21, 2017

A week for Formula E and two live Makeover Monday events in Munich an Milan.

Week 41: Obesity in America

Oct 13, 2017

What an amazing week for Makeover Monday! The week started with a mere 500 of us together in a room in Vegas at TC17 vizzing about obesity in America. Last year in Austin we had 100 people attend and it was full about an hour before the start. We never could have...

Week 40: The UK economy since the Brexit vote

Oct 6, 2017

This week’s makeover focused on GDP growth for G7 countries, the UK in particular, and many people used the rather simple dataset to create makeovers.

Week 39 – Restricted Dietary Requirements Around the Globe

Sep 29, 2017

Week 39 saw lots of simple vizzes using simple data about restricted dietary requirements around the globe

Week 38: A Day at the Races

Sep 22, 2017

For week 38 we challenged the community to analyze and visualize our race data, which we produced on Sunday as Andy ran the Richmond Marathon and I competed at the Sprint Triathlon Age Group World Championship in Rotterdam.