Weekly Viz 2020-03-02

Costing Kids Sleep

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 dataset is about US kids’ sleep hour and how it is impacted by the public education system. The original article and viz can be found here. It’s surprising to see that among all the grades, the average sleep time never meets the recommended sleep time.

My Visualization

I think in this case, we want to see the difference of hours of sleep as well as the sleep our deficit, thus it’s an ideal case to use a gantt plot.

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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

• Generally speaking, the lower the grade, the longer the sleep time is;
• However, none of the average sleep time meets the recomended sleep time, and things get worse when you are at higher grade…

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