08. Exercise 2

Exercise 2: How would you visualize it?

The number of people who signed up for our MeetUp last night who were no-shows (who did not make it).
Show a chart to depict the following:

  1. The number of no shows for the past 6 MeetUps
  2. Our average percent of no-shows for the past year
  3. No-shows by profession: Design, Marketing, Sales, Human Resources and IT over the past year.

** Create a doodle with a pencil and paper appropriate charts to visualize the answers to the prompts above.**

Solution

  1. The number of no shows for the past 6 MeetUps. Because we are looking for just the number, you can just show a number. Or a pie chart given there are just two pieces of information. This will have two wedges, the number of people for each wedge and the name of the category.

  2. Our average percent of no-shows for the past year. A waffle or pie chart will be nice here. Or any other composition charts.

  3. No-shows by profession: Design, Marketing, Sales, Human Resources and IT over the past year. Pie chart with more than 5 categories is not ideal. Pie charts work better with fewer categories (or wedges in the pie). The more real-estate you give to each wedge, the harder it gets to convey that information. Alternately, you can do a tree map or bar chart.

Progression can be depicted from no-shows.

Chart Chooser diagram is a great website that encapsulates early visualization ideas:
https://apandre.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/chartchooserincolor.jpg

Similarly, the following two websites serves a nice guide as well

JuiceAnalytics: http://labs.juiceanalytics.com/chartchooser/index.html

Graphic Continuum site:
https://visual.ly/blog/graphic-continuum/

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