Safe Water Data Visualization
Project Description
This project aimed to create a visual representation to compare various data sets. For this project, I used various charts to show the connections between clean drinking water and sanitation in rural vs urban areas. Part A of the data visualisation is a general overview of the connections between clean drinking water and sanitation in countries around the world. Whereas, Part B looks at rural inequality in both Canada and Africa. Below you can find the process for how this data visualization was created!
Date 2023
Client Dr. Jodi Jenkinson
Audience University Students and Scholars
Tools Procreate, Raw Graphs, Excel Tableau Prep, Adobe Illustrator
Format Static Data Visualisation
Process
I began by cleaning two sets of data in Tableu Prep so that I had infromation for both urban and rural countries. The data sets were then combined and ready to be create into graphs.
Clean Data
The cleaned data was imported into raw graphs to create an alluvial diagram comparing residence types, service levels, service type, SDG regions, and countries. Excel was additionally used to create a colour chart showing the level of sanitation and clean drinking water across each country. The remaining data for the graphs were obtained from WHO UNICEF (1) and Our World in Data (2).
Creating Graphs
The colour palette consisted of desaturated cool colours, such as blue, green and purple. Additionally a blue to yellow through green colour palate was implemented. The purpose of primarily using blue and green colours was to allow the theme of water to be easily recognisable by the audience.
Colour Palette
Preliminary ideas were sketched out on paper to begin to brainstorm visual representations of data. The concept of the graph looking as if it were water falling for Part A was sketched here in the early stages of the design process.
Preliminary Sketches
I then moved on to create a layout. The top half of the diagram looks at sanitation and clean drinking water in rural vs urban areas across the world. In the lower part of the comprehensive, there is a map showing the death rate around the world due to unclean water. On the left side of the map Canada and the exploitation of indigenous peoples in rural areas is highlighted. On the right side drinking water, sanitation and hygiene are measured in rural versus urban areas in Algeria, Tunisia, Chad and Niger.
Comprehensive Draft
JMP. (n.d.). Retrieved March 23, 2023, from https://washdata.org/data/household?fbclid=IwAR34vEpOB7hkVuDCBs6cnip8exQgErhUl0onO-1JXq2MuOyOqE_wCA4r_F4#!/table?geo0=region&geo1=sdg
Ritchie, H., & Roser, M. (2021, July 1). Clean water. Our World in Data. Retrieved March 23, 2023, from https://ourworldindata.org/water-access?fbclid=IwAR3H15nwSmqhY3oqljqBbj3JSpZPZKmhpJGBykLc8v601m-HMcEGy1-ESHM
Safe water for first nations. The Council of Canadians. (2023, March 8). Retrieved March 23, 2023, from https://canadians.org/fn-water/
Water First . Water First Education & Training Inc. (2023, March 23). Retrieved March 23, 2023, from https://waterfirst.ngo/
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