Ensure that each visualization includes and accurately reflects the following elements:
- The selected graph is the best option for representing this data
- All numbers double-checked
- Spell check
- Headline/title
- Correct units of measurement
- Description of what the x- and y-axis represent
- Y-axis starts at 0 (If not: Is it clearly shown? Does the editor agree?)
- Conscious choice of colours (explained on request)
- Source
- Instructions for use (if the graph is interactive)
- Context or explanation (if necessary)
- 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)
- The visualization checked on a mobile device
Assignment 1
There's no particular choice when it comes to colour, green is perhaps linked to nuclear power, it's not universally seen as a green energy source, so I left it at a neutral blue.
I chose to show the bigger european countries in the database, comparing their total output.
- Have you followed the checklist for visualizations (every step)?
- Yes
- Colours: How easy or difficult is changing colours using the tool?
- not hard
- Text/Labels: How easy or difficult is it to work with text and labels in the tool?
- not hard
- Flexibility: How flexible are the tools? Can you make the changes you need?
- datawrapper is easy to use, quite felxible, flourish is less stable.
- Accessibility: What are the different accessibility options provided by the tools?
- nice that you can do visual descriptions
- Smartphone: How do the charts appear on your smartphone? Have you faced any issues while accessing them?
- they have to be adapted
Assignment 2
- Have you followed the checklist for visualizations (every step)?
- yes
- Colours: How easy or difficult is changing colours using the tool?
- easy
- Text/Labels: How easy or difficult is it to work with text and labels in the tool?
- easier in datawrapper
- Flexibility: How flexible are the tools? Can you make the changes you need?
- both have their positives and negatives
- Accessibility: What are the different accessibility options provided by the tools?
- more in datawrapper for the visually impaired
- Smartphone: How do the charts appear on your smartphone? Have you faced any issues while accessing them?
- resized
Assignment 3
- In what context do you think Datawrapper is the best tool, and why? When would you not use it?
- Datawrapper is more stable, more straightforward, and doesn't require as many ressources
- What are the main benefits of using Datawrapper?
- for maps, the matching feature is so useful. Matching a country name to a coordinate is great.
- Its simplicity
- In what context do you think Flourish is the best tool, and why? When would you not use it?
- Flourish makes nicer looking graphs
- What are the main benefits of using Flourish?
- the visual customization
- Which of the tools do you personally prefer so far?
- Datawrapper