HelpMeViz Posts Archive - Page 6 of 10

HelpMeViz Introduces the Remake Gallery

July 24, 2014

Visualizing Four Numbers

July 23, 2014

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This request is from Billy. I saw this chart a few weeks ago and immediately felt that it was a terrible way to show the data. (Let’s ignore for the moment that with only four numbers, a graphic may not actually be necessary…

Table Design Help

July 18, 2014

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Hi, We’ve been struggling with how to make this table reader friendly for the non-data literate. Please help! This table is included in a larger report that will be distributed to community agencies with varying levels of data literacy. Please…

Percentages and Targets

July 10, 2014

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This request for help comes from Mike Clark. I am aiming to compare two categories (both in percentage), one of which can and does have negative values for particular locations, and then grouped into regions. There is also a 75%…

Hackathon: Women’s Empowerment & Nutrition

June 28, 2014

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Here’s Challenge #2 for today’s Hackathon: As we begin to explore years of data on women’s empowerment from the World Bank and United Nations, we want to ask the question: Do countries that significantly improve the status of women also…

Hackathon: Exposing Gaps in Data on Women’s Empowerment

June 28, 2014

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Here’s Challenge #1 for today’s Hackathon: New research shows that even the most advanced current efforts to gauge women’s empowerment still miss critical elements of what it takes for women to be empowered in the developing world. Far too many…

All Seeing Eye Chrome Extension

June 19, 2014

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This is a new type of request for HelpMeViz, and comes from Marc Fawzi, author of a new Chrome extension. He is soliciting general ideas on the visualization side of his project. I’ve built an open-source Chrome extension that replaces Chrome’s default…

The First HelpMeViz Hackathon Event

June 3, 2014

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I’m excited to announce the first live HelpMeViz Hackathon event. On Saturday, June 28th, HelpMeViz will bring together coders, data scientists, and data visualizers in Washington, DC, to help Bread for the World Institute with two data visualization challenges for…

SNAP Participation & Outreach

June 2, 2014

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I am trying to visualize the relationship between Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (“food stamps”) participation and community outreach by state (data here). I started with a scatterplot, which showed a strong positive correlation between the two variables, but the (potential causal) relationship…

MLB Payroll and Wins

June 2, 2014

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I want to create a visualization of the correlation between baseball team wins and payroll between 2002 and 2012. My first idea was to do a slope chart with the different payroll values on 2 parallel vertical axis for the…