For my final data visualization project, I chose to work with a dataset containing a list of over 2,000 languages, their locations, and a rating on how close they are to extinction.
I wanted to create a visualization that would allow users to be able to see more easily where these documented languages are/were spoken, and to judge how near they are to extinction more efficiently.
In my visualization, the data is represented as different colored dots on a map. (light blue = vulnerable, dark blue = definitely endangered, magenta = severely endangered, red = critically endangered, gray = extinct)
To interact with the visualization, try dragging it do move, scrolling up to zoom in, scrolling down to zoom out, and hovering over dots to see what they represent.
One interesting thing I noticed during this project is that a lot of the dots seem to form lines, like along the west coast of North America. There also seems to be large clumps of dots, like in South America, the middle of Africa, and several islands between Australia and Asia.
Something I still wonder about is why there aren't as many datapoints around Russia.