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What, why, and how analysis
What?
Why?
How?
Tasks
Present the measurement indexes from the dataset obtained from the EPI.
Lookup for interesting data knowing the target and location of the information.
Identify outliers in the data.
Identify the distribution that forms the data.
Decisions made:
The main task of the proposed visualization was to compare the different indexes of the country, and view the difference between them. For that reason, we choose the bar chart, because it helps the user to understand and compare effectively the values of the indicators. We made an ordering functionality to show a more accurately comparison, but the user also has the option for viewing the data as it is. In the case when the data is not ordered, we decide to put a new channel that enforce the concept of comparison, that’s why we set the opacity of the bars according to the value of the data.
The channels used in the visualization were the length of the bars and the color (saturation/opacity), and the bars were the marks. Talking about the chart characteristics, we put the value of the index in the Y axis, as is a continuous variable. And in the X axis it's set the measurement indexes of the country, a categorical, unordered variable.
The diagram interaction is seen in the moment the user passes the mouse over the bars (hover). In this interaction the user can "ask" the visualization and the visualization will tell him the exact value of that index. In addition, the user can interact with the visualization making click over the checkbox to sort or not the visualization. For maintaining the best accuracy with the data, the tooltip was implemented as the names of the measurement indexes were kind of large and the user really can't tell what is the exact value of the bars just with a simple glance. Also the names of the indexes were rotated for better visualization.
Effectiveness & Expressiveness
Our visualization has a good expressiveness because we are the information of the dataset correctly and not showing another data that doesn’t correspond to the data we have. In addition, we have the ordered data in a way that represents correctly the dataset and matches the channels and the data characteristics.
The effectiveness is achieved correctly because we are using the highest ranked channels, as the length and the saturation or opacity to encode the attributes of the dataset. We user the bars length as it is the best ranked channel, and after that we set the opacity of the bars because the saturation is one of the best ranked channels also.
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