Week 16: US Air Passenger Travel
A rich dataset in week 16 gave us a chance to analyse air passenger numbers for several years for travels to and from the US, as well as domestic trips within the country.
Week 15: Fouls Called By NBA Referees
For week 15 we looked at data about fouls called by NBA referees – what types of fouls did they call and during which season.
Week 14: Dry Bean Classification
13,000+ beans were classified according to 16 different attributes – we got our community to visualize the results.
Week 13: UK Exports to EU have plunged since Brexit
How did Brexit change exports from the UK? Look at this week’s favorites to find out…
Week 12: The Cereal Industry Had a Very Weird Year
In week 12, #MakeoverMonday participants tackled data about consumption expenditure over time, including the impact of the pandemic on purchasing behaviors.
Week 11: What is the World’s Biggest Cash Crop?
With the world’s population growing rapidly and agriculture intensifying in every region, we used week 11 to look at cash crops in different parts of the world.
Week 10: Women’s Participation in the Olympics
For week 10 and in celebration of International Women’s Day 2021, we look at the progress that has been made to reach parity between genders in participation at the Olympic Games.
Week 9: Seats Held by Women in National Parliaments
Week 9’s topic was the representation of women in national parliaments across Europe as seen by the number of seats they hold compared to men.
Week 8: Protests Against Limiting Abortion Rights in Poland
In week 8 the community tackled data about protests against the changes in Poland’s abortion policy
Week 7: What’s the point of Valentine’s Day?
Valentine’s Day brings out a lot of creativity in our community each week, so this week’s favorites feature some rare data art examples that we’d like to showcase.
Week 6: Perceived Obstacles to Gender Equality
For the 12th Viz5 challenge, the community tackled perceptions of gender equality as reported from different countries.
Week 5: Renewable Energy
Week 5 challenges the #MakeoverMonday community to create visualizations about renewable energy production in the EU. Check out the favorites in this video.
Week 4 2021: Indian Coal Mine Production
Indian coal mine production was the topic of week 4. Check out this week’s lessons learned and favorites.
Week 3 2021: What’s Warming The Earth?
What is warming the earth? That was the question we explored during week 3 of #MakeoverMonday.
Week 2 2021: Viz5: Gender inequality in new HIV infections among adolescents
Check out this week’s favorites as the community visualized the severe gender inequality in HIV infections in adolescents.
Week 1 2021: The Great Bicycle Boom of 2020
Welcome to #MakeoverMonday in 2021 – here are your favorites for week 1 plus a recap with three lessons learned.
Week 52: Global import of cocoa beans
The last week of 2020 had us visualize data about cocoa bean imports by different regions around the world. Check out these inspiring favorites that will leave you wanting chocolate…
Week 51: Arsenal’s worst ever Premier League start
For Charlie’s last #MakeoverMonday dataset he provided some data related to Arsenal football club which showed how much they’re struggling under Mikel Arteta as we approach Christmas 2020. How would the community choose to present this data?
Week 50: A Statistical Analysis of the Work of Bob Ross
In week 50 the community visualized data about Bob Ross’ paintings throughout his career as painter and artist who inspired millions with his artwork.
Week 49: Divergent Opinions on Transatlantic Alliance
Looks can be deceptive! A simple dataset proved to be pretty versatile this week and the #MakeoverMonday community found a number of solutions when presenting this small dataset
Week 48: The Success of Operation Fistula’s Pilot Program
This week saw our community tackle a #Viz5 dataset to visualize the success of Operation Fistula’s pilot program. Check out our favorite visualizations in this post.
Week 47: Why America’s debt doesn’t stop growing
For Andy Kriebel’s plaque-earning 1,000th Tableau Public viz, we looked at the development of GDP and Public Debt trends in the USA
Week 46: The Majority of Advertising Dollars are Now Being Spent Online
In this week’s #MakeoverMonday challenge we tackled data on ad spending in the US and the community produced a lot of great visualizations. Check out the video here for this week’s favorites.
Week 45: Dedicated Video Game Sales Units
The week 45 data saw Nintendo Switch hardware and software sales charted by the #MakeoverMonday community. As ever a relatively small dataset was creatively approached and a wide variety of submissions were received
Week 44: Viz 5 – The Digital Gender Gap
Check out this week’s video and links to the favorite visualizations for the #Viz5 challenge to visualize the digital gender gap, indicating how much access women have to the internet and mobile phones in different countries.
Week 43: Apparel Exports to US
Some fairly depressing data this week (sorry!) looking at the way large corporate organisations in the US have exploited apparel suppliers worldwide as demand for products dipped in Q2 and Q3 2020
Week 42: Health spending
Check out the lessons learned for week 42 and see Eva’s favorite visualizations from this week’s data challenge. The community worked with data about healthcare spending.
Week 41: Data assets and data culture
To give frazzled minds a rest after the frenetic few days of Tableau Conferenceish, a simple dataset and a chart of dubious qualities was shared with the #MakeoverMonday community for some TLC
Week 40: The US Counties with the Highest Economic Output
This week the #MakeoverMonday challenge consisted of visualizing a dataset about US GDP by counties. Check out the maps, bar charts, line charts and dashboards in this week’s favorites.
Week 39: #Viz5 – Child Marriage
For week 39 we tackled another #Viz5 dataset, this time about child marriage. Our #MakeoverMonday community did a great job working with data about such a difficult topic and handled it with care and consideration. Check out this week’s favorites here!
Week 38: Pick up a book and read!
Week 38 came with lots of submissions from the community, visualizing the price index of books and all other consumer goods for various countries. Check out this blog post for a video containing the lessons learned and this week’s favorites.
Week 37: School workforce in England
The data this week reflected a decade of aggregated teacher salary data from England. The #MakeoverMonday community did a great job of clearly and concisely representing this in an effective way.
Week 36: Sugar and Calories in Breakfast Cereals
A great variety of vizzes was created to visualize the nutritional value of different breakfast cereals. Check out the video to hear this week’s lessons and see Eva’s favorites.
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Week 35: Indian batsmen v left-arm pace
Who would have thought that such a small dataset could incite such debate during Viz Review?! Lots of people were taken out of their comfort zone this week, and that’s a good thing. Lots of submissions were peppered with distracting icons and images; chart junk. In most cases, simplicity is best so the main lesson from this week for me is: if it doesn’t add to the understanding of the data, don’t add it to the visualisation!
Week 34: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
For week 34 the community tackled another #Viz5 challenge to analyze and visualize data about women’s access to contraception in low and low-middle income countries. Check out the favorites for this week.
Week 33: Scotland – The state of the Digital Nation
To tie in with his trip North of the border, Charlie shared some data related to tech companies based in Scotland. Do you always need to use maps when geographic data is provided? Maybe, maybe not. When executed well it certainly adds some flourish to a data viz.
Week 32: Benefits of Working from Home
During week 32 the community visualised the benefits of working from home. Check out the great charts and dashboards they created.
Week 31: UK visits abroad
The #MakeoverMonday community tackled a fairly bland dataset with customary gusto this week. Here is a selection of the favourites this week.
Week 30: Women in Power
For this #MakeoverMonday and #Viz5 challenge the community visualized the proportion of women in parliaments around the world. Check out this week’s favorites here.
Week 29: The Global Divide on Homosexuality Persists
Simple survey data this week and the challenge was as much about tone of voice and objectiveness as it was about data visualisation. It’s one thing to be able to present data in a captivating way. but understanding how to describe and position your wording is as important.
Week 28: The penguins at Palmer Station, Antarctica
During week 28, the #MakeoverMonday community worked with data collected by scientists at Palmer Station, Antarctica. The data covers three different penguin species and some of their physical attributes.
Week 27: Comparing common mental disorder by sex
This week we looked at data from 2014 via NHS Digital looking at self-reported symptoms of common mental health disorder. The challenge was as much the use of language and understanding of the limitations of the data, as it was to present it in a clear and effective way.
Week 26: Economic Empowerment #Viz5
For week 26, the #MakeoverMonday community worked on another #Viz5 challenge, visualizing economic empowerment data. Check out this week’s favorites here.
Week 25: Amazon’s tiny profits, explained
Amazon post modest profit margins each quarter. Take a look to see the ways in which members of the #MakeoverMonday community presented that data in week 25 of the 2020 datasets
Week 24: The rise of soccer
The #MakeoverMonday worked on high school sports participation rates for week 24, showing the increasing popularity of soccer among girls.
Week 23: Animal-free products consumption in Great Britain
Attitudes to meat-free and animal-free foods in Great Britain came under the microscope in week 23. How many ways can survey results be visualised? Well, at least six!
Week 22: Safe Houses for Girls and Women At Risk of FGM
During week 22, the MakeoverMonday community tackled the challenging topic of FGM, female genital mutilation, to raise awareness for charities striving to put an end to the practice in Tanzania.
Week 21: Visualizing 40 Years of Music Industry Sales
An exceptional week of submissions this week, where the majority were subtle variations on a solid original visualisation. A reminder to all #MakeoverMonday participants: favourites can only be selected from Twitter submissions including a static screenshot of the final visualisation; we can’t incorporate .gifs in the Favourites post so they won’t be included.
Week 20: Auto Insurance Rates by State in 2020
In week 20 the #MakeoverMonday community tackled a dataset about car insurance rates in the US in 2020, highlighting rates for minimum and full cover.
Week 19: World Happiness Report 2020
The task this week was to try to improve upon a stacked bar chart representing metrics related to the 2020 World Happiness Report. There was a lot of variety in the submissions this week, which is reflected in the favourites. There were many, many more which came close!
Week 18: Obstetric Fistula in Madagascar
During week 18 we tackled another #Viz5 dataset. This month the topic was obstetric fistula in Madagascar, with a detailed dataset provided by Operation Fistula. Check out this week’s favorites here.
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