For my final data visualization project, I chose to work with a data set on who eats a certain category of food in each place. It has many different categories and it represents its amounts in tonnes. The source for this data is Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
I wanted to create a visualization that would allow users to be able to see the amount of food with the place, and also be able to compare different categories like years and items.
In my visualization, the data is represented as each dot showing a different amount of a specific category during a year from a place, and its position represents where it is in the world. For example, in Algeria in 1971 there was 8 tonnes of Rice (Milled Equivalent).
To interact with the visualization, try clicking the mouse. The program will start and every time you click on the screen, it will rotate to a different year. When you hover over a dot it will tell you how many tonnes of that item there is, and the place. You can see the year and the item in boxes on the screen. Also, when you click 1, 2, 3, and 4 it rotates through the different items.
One interesting thing I noticed during this project is how the amounts of food and beverages vary so much from each other. For instance, some places have much more wheat than alcohol.
Something I still wonder about is why places have such a big difference between the different items and how this reflects their society.