Weekly Viz 2019-09-09
James Patterson Book Checkouts at Seattle Libraries
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 20190909
This week’s data is about James Patterson Book Checkouts at Seattle Libraries. James Patterson is a very popular American author (though I’ve never read his books myself). The original report can be found here. It includes multiple vizzes on different dataset of Seattle library – some of them are really fancy…
My Visualization
I mimiced the original viz of Jane Austen book checkouts this week… not much innovative ideas.
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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
- James Patterson’s most recent hit is NYPD Red3, which was very much popular at Seattle libraries from 2013 to 2016;
- Before that, 7th Heaven was extremely popular in 2008, but soon replaced by his new book Run For Your Life in 2009.
Follow this link to find more weekly vizzes :)