Datawrapper
When it comes to descriptions I think it's nice to have some kind of 'dots' to seperate the sentences. In this case I think the emojis work. There wasn't really anything I felt the need to add in notes, but I hoped people really had a lovely afternoon.
I chose to show the ten countries with the largest amount of nuclear reactors. Like before I added the source, with the link. This time i chose to add the possibilty to share the chart on social media, just for fun. I think it was relevant to have a note about that only operational reactors are included in the data. I used the same customized colour as in the previous chart.
Infogram
I tried how it looks with dots. Honestly I think it looks better with just the line.
This chart was made for a story about reactors in China.
Flourish
This chart is basically the same as the line chart made with Datawrapper. This time i chose to highlight 2018 instead of writing about that year in the header. I also chose to have a light grey background, because it's considered to be good. Personally I think white is fine as well, but of course it is not as intense with grey. Just for fun i tried the option to add a logo. When one clicks on the logo one reaches The Guardian's homepage.
Here I showed the electrical capacity instead. I added the information about the number of reactors as a fun fact in the popups.
Assignment 2c (Nov 22)
Comparison
Now you have six charts made with three different tools.
Open your post (WordPress) in a smartphone and take a look at all the charts.
In your post:
Write answers to the following questions.
Keep these answers as a guide for yourself in the future.
Use these questions to evaluate other tools.
Smartphone: How do the charts from the different tools appear on your smartphone? Are there any problems?
They all look okay, but none of them are perfect. The Datawrapper line chart doesnt show the highest grid on the y-axis. Both Infogram charts appear as slightly too narrow on my phone. The Floursih chart look the best, but some of the number in the columns are excluded. In general it is a bit annoying to click instead of hovering, but that's what you get when you use a phone.
Colours: How easy/difficult is it to change colours with the different tools?
I find it easy with all of them.
Text/labels: How easy/difficult is it to work with text/labels in the different tools?
I find it easy with all of them, but in Flourish it is most intuitive.
Flexibility: How flexible are the tools? Can you make the changes you want to do?
I find Flourish the most flexible. Both Datawrapper and Infogram have more restrictions.
Accessibility: Which different options for accessibility do the tools have?
They all have options for screen readers, which is good. Datawrapper has a good tool that makes it easy to see how the charts look for people with colour blindness.
Conclusion
What are the main benefits of:
Datawrapper?
Easy and fast to use. Easy to see how charts look for colour blind people. In my opinion the charts look good, especially on the computer.
Infogram?
Labelling is easy.
Flourish?
This is the most flexible tool with the most options for different visualizations.
Which one of the tools do YOU prefer, so far?
Flourish.
Checklist – visualizations
Make sure all the following is included/correct
in every visualization:
All numbers double checked
Spell check
Axis and legend titles (If possible. Otherwise described in caption)
Units
Y-axis starts at 0
Conscious choice of colors – (explained on request)
Source
Instructions for use (when needed)
Context or explanation (when needed)
Byline
Accessibility (contrast, caption for screen readers, attached table etc)
(explained on request)
Understandable for someone who sees the visualization for the first time
(show it to someone outside the newsroom)
Url with the visualization checked on a mobile device
Geoviz
1A
1B
Flourish
Cleaning the data was a little bit of a mess, because special characters in the names did not look good. I solved that by importing that column to Google Spreadsheets.
Even if I think circles look better than spikes, I went with spikes since they are not in the way of eachother and I find it easier to see which power plants have the highest capacity with spikes. It is annoying that I can't get rid of the two decimal places. I imported the data without decimals, I tried to change it in the dataset in Flourish and I changed the decimal places to 0 in "Points layer". Maybe this can be solved with html?
Datawrapper
It was quite easy to do this in Datawrapper, but I didn't find a search box option. I'm glad that there was no problem with decimal places. One thing I don't like is that there is no option to make the base of the spikes wider in Datawrapper.
2A
2B
2C
For the last map I had problems with number formatting, which can be seen in the popups.
2D
The map of Sweden is long, but on my phone it actually looks quite good. In general the Datawrapper and Flourish maps are a bit small, but there is not much to do about that within the tools. Probably it's possible to customize that in other ways. Apart from these thing the maps look okay on the phone.