Weekly Viz 2020-01-20

Is it time to treat sugar like smoking?

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 comes from The British Nutrition Foundation, and focuses on sugar consumption by different age and gender groups. I personally always feel that the sweets in the US (especially cupcakes) are way too sweet… But it seems like it’s a much more severe issue than we typically expect. The original artcile can be found here, and it actually links the over used of sugar to smoking.

My Visualization

The viz I made is a yearly line trend across all the age groups, and put children, adult men and women side by side for easier comparison.

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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

• UK teenagers consumes three times more sugar than recommended (5%), as a share of total calories;
• Different from the popular view of women like sweets more than men, based on the survey, adult men actually consumes slightly more sugar than women.

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