Weekly Viz 2021-08-16
How’s UCAS Clearing Going?
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 20210816
This week’s dataset is about UCAS clearing. Honestly, I have no idea what UCAS clearning is, so I have to google to get some idea (if you are in the same boat, you can check outt this article). The original viz is also a Tableau dashboard. As I don’t have much knowledge on this topic, I decided to polish the current viz, instead of doing something very different.
My Visualization
I made two mean changes: 1. Updated the nesting from year -> JCQ to JCQ -> year to make it easier to see the status distribution change trend; 2. Removed the bars which make the original dashboard very confusing in my opinion.
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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
- Over time, we see the group ‘placed’ taking higher percentage, while the ‘free to be placed’ decreasing (but seems bounced back a bit in 2021);
- Higher JCQ seems to have a higher percentage of ‘placed’.
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