Weekly Viz 2020-04-20

Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local

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 20200420

This week’s data is about the greenhouse gas emission from different food product. The data shows the emission at each supply chain step, which is very helpful to understand which step actually generates most greenhouse gas footprint. The original article shows us that as the transportation step only accounts for a very small percentage of the overall greenhouse gas emission for most product, ‘what you eat’ matters more than ‘whether your food is local’.

My Visualization

To show that which supply chain step generates most greenhouse gas emission for different products, I created a stacked bar chart with percentage view, with a parameter on the top to switch to absolute emission view.

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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, farm step generates highest greenhouse gas emission among all the other steps for almost all the food product;
• Animal based products (meat, milk, egg, etc.) generates far more greenhouse gas than the plant based products;
• Though two plat based products pop up with high greenhouse gas emission – dark chocolate and coffee.

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