I came across this post on http://visual.ly/areas-europe , which actually communicates a rather simple piece of information - Areas of all the European Countries. It got me thinking as to how far could someone go to complicate anything.
The Viz., which was posted on the website is
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| Source : http://visual.ly/areas-europe |
Phew!! that's tough to decipher. What this visualizes and is trying to communicate is basic information as I mentioned above - Areas of all the countries in Europe. Though we see that it has some artistic effect to it, it becomes tough trying to understand what it is trying to tell us. This is a basic bubble chart, where the size of the bubble corresponds to the area, positioned alphabetically. However we see that Europe is positioned last which can be ambiguous to a few.
The ambiguities that we can see here are:
- Which bubble corresponds to which country - Due to fair amount of overlaps
- Europe placed at the last - Is this considered a country too, if so where is its bubble, if not why is it there?
I gave a shot on trying to make it simpler. You can click on them to make them larger and have a clearer look.
This is a very fair simple example (less artistic though) which clearly depicts the areas of each country belonging to Europe. This is a simple bar chart where the length of the bars shows the areas, lined in a descending order of their respective areas.
What is clear in this viz.,
- Country names
- Areas of each country
- Comparison
Another try at making this better is.,
Here I have ranked each country based on their areas largest being ranked 1 lowest being 49. The shade in the color shows the difference in ranks.
I wish I could embed the Viz., here so that the area details could also be shown, if I had done that here, it would be cluttered.
The tool I used to make these visualizations is Tableau, which is available for download at http://www.tableausoftware.com/
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