Weekly Viz 2019-11-18

Smartphone Ownership Among Youth Is on the Rise

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 20191118

This week’s data is around smartphone ownership percentage across tweens and teens (8-18) in the US in 2015 and 2019. The dataset is small and staightforward, so as the original viz, which you can find here.

My Visualization

I layered shape and line together to create this viz, to show the smartphone ownership increase and compare it across age groups in another way.

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

–

Insights

• Comparing 2015 and 2019, we see higher smartphone ownership rate among all the age groups.
• The increase is especially high for those under 13 years old.

Follow this link to find more weekly vizzes :)