Weekly Viz 2021-04-19
US Air Travel Falls Due to Covid Epidemic
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 20210419
This week the dataset is about US air travel. As the original article tells, it’s not surprising to see how much air travel has decreased from last year due to COVID 19. I really hope everything will be back to normal soon.
My Visualization
The dataset is pretty large as each flight is a record. So I first used Python to create aggregated stats on passengers from/to each city each month, then built the viz below.
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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
- We see a significant drop in air passengers departing from all US cities, and in major cities, the passenger amount in 2019 is only 1/3 to 1/4 from that of 2020.
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