Weekly Viz 2019-04-15

The words in ‘Info We Trust’

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.

Makeover Monday 20190415

This week’s data is about the word frequency of the book ‘Info We Trust’ by RJ Andrew. This is the second time I see text data in makeovermonday, and the original viz itself is a word cloud, which is almost everyone’s instinct facing a vasiualization problem of text data. But also as many of you know, word cloud has its own problem of not quantitative enough and not straitghtforward to compare among the words.

My Visualization

With that being said, of course, I cannot make a word cloud this time… Instead, I made a bump chart style viz to see how the top words chaging in each section of the book.

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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

• ‘data’ has always been among the top 5 words in all the sections (atually it’s the top 1 in four out of six sections) – information with data definitely seems more trustworthy;
• Not surprisingly, we see some top words very much related to the topic of the section – ‘number’ in mathemagical, color in metaphorical, …

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