For my final data visualization project, I chose to work with a data set about different languages around the world and how endangered (or extinct) they currently are. The source for this data set is The Guardian with data from UNESCO.
I wanted to create a visualization that would allow users to see the distribution of differently endangered languages across the world and see different patterns or changes of the data on a map.
In my visualization, the data is represented as dots based on the latitude and longitude of the country where the language is spoken. The dots are also color coded according to the degree of endangerment. The darkness of the color varies directly with how endangered the language is.
To interact with the visualization, try hovering over a dot to learn what language it represents and the number of speakers currently living.
One interesting thing I noticed during this project is that places that were colonized in the past commonly have many extinct languages.
Something I still wonder about is how the placement would change over time if we looked at data from many years ago.