SIRI PATEL
SIRI PATEL
For my final data visualization project, I chose to work with a data set describing each language around the world, and a ranking system based on how endangered that language is. It shows not only the language name but also where those languages are spoken around the world.
I wanted to create a visualization that would allow users to see where languages are the most endangered. From my data, they can spot different trends such as where languages are the most healthy vs. unhealthy.
In my visualization, the data is represented as people on a map based on the latitude and longitude of the where the languages are most commonly spoken. The color indicates the rank of endangerment of each language, with black being fully extinct and white being only vulnerable.
To interact with the visualization, try clicking the buttons in different shades of red. When you hover over each, you will be able to sort the data basked on the rank of endangerment. You can also hover over each individual data point to see the name of the language, and how many current speakers there are.
One interesting thing I noticed during this project is that there tend to be many trends in which areas along the map are crowded with languages. For example, you can see there are many languages along the coast, and if you sort the languages by different categories, you can see these trends even further.
Something I still wonder about is what this data would look like in a few years, or even in a decade. How would this data change or compare? It would be interesting to make this same visualization able to go forward and back in time based on the years. This way you would be able to see different languages become more or less popular.