For my final data visualization project, I chose to work with a data set about climate change and disasters around the world. I decided to focus on the disasters part of it and the most common one thought the year. This data set is from 'the Emergency Events Database - Université catholique de Louvain - Brussels, Belgium.'
I decided to work with this dataset because I found climate change such an interesting topic and i found a great opportunity to show its impact on the worlds. Furthermore i had ideas running around for how i could visualize it and show its true affect on the world.
In my visualization, the data is represented as color, size. The color is shown with the dots to see which disaster was the most common at the time and place. The size repersents how many of that most comment disaster for that country in that year.
To interact with the visualization, try hovering over the dots to get extra information and try cicking on the screen to progress though the years.
One interesting thing I noticed during this project is how the amount of disasters grew over time. For example imagine if the US might have 20 storms in 1920 they might have 4 in 2022. Obviously the amount varies on year but the average for each country still grew.
Something I still wonder about is how other disasters would look when visualized like this.
The most challenging moment of this project was organizing my google sheet. There was alot of data to set up, organize, and fix to make it usable for me and readable for the computer.
If I had more time, I would like to add more disasters and have the chance to single out each disater.
My proudest moment during this project was when it worked! When i was able to see my idea start to work. At the time it was only one year btu the colors and size was there and i saw my design work!