Weekly Viz 2018-10-15

Total Number of Women the House of Representatives: 1917-2018

About Makeover Monday

MakeoverMonday is a social data project: “Each week we post a link to a chart, and its data, and then you rework the chart. Maybe you retell the story more effectively, or find a new story in the data. We’re curious to see the different approaches you all take. Whether it’s a simple bar chart or an elaborate infographic, we encourage everyone of all skills to partake. Together we can have broader conversations about and with data.”

Starting from Jan 08, 2018, I decided to put aside one hour on Monday weekly to create some visualization and find some insights from the data.

The datasets are published each week at: MakeoverMonday Datasets.

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This week’s data is about the number of female representatives in the US House of Representatives. The orginal viz shows clearly that women representatives in the Democratic Party has increased a lot to 32% over time (still much less than half), however, in the Republican Party, only 9% house representatives are women. This seems quite shocking to me.

My Visualization

Except from comparing the women representative percentage between the Republican and Domocratic, I think it’s also valuable to visualize the total number of women representatives in the House of Representatives.

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Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.

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Insights

• Althrough we are seeing more and more female in the House of Representatives, they still only count for less than 20% of the total representatives;
• Especially in the Republican Party, they only have less than 10% female representatives in the House.

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