Weekly Viz 2020-07-13

Penguins at Palmer Station

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 20200713

This week we are looking at the Palmer Station penguins observation data. This dataset includes these penguins’ basic bio and stats, such as species, bill depth, body mass, flipper length, etc. As the data descirption says, “The goal of palmerpenguins is to provide a great dataset for data exploration & visualization, as an alternative to iris.”. Everyone learning Data Science probably played iris at some point, but now we have an alternative :)

My Visualization

Simple 2x2 scatter charts with black and whilte background (because it’s penguin color).

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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

• These three species of penguins can largely be distinguished by the four stats –
• Generally speaking, Gentoo penguins are heavier, with longer flipper and culmen, but lower culmen depth;
• Adelie and Chinstrap penguins show similar body mass, culmen depth and flipper length, but Adelie tends to have shorter culmen.

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