Weekly Viz 2020-09-07

Breakfast Cereals: Healthy or Unhealthy?

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 we are working on a dataset with nutrition facts of different breakfast cereal products. As stated in this article, it’s interesting that cereal is considered as one of those healthy food, yet it really depends on the brand and products – some could be high sugar and carb as well.

My Visualization

To help people the cereal based on their nutrition preference, I built this dash with five nutrition filters. When you click on one of the product meeting the selection criteria, you will see its detailed nutrition facts table on the right.

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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

• It’s interesting that calories per serving could vary from 50 to 160, similarly, sugar could vary from 0g to 15g per serving (but obviously, serving size is another variable here);
• Generally speaking, high sugar is correlated with high calorie.

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