VIOLET C
8th Grade Computer Science Data Visualization Project
8th Grade Computer Science Data Visualization Project
Religious Adherents from 1945 - 2010
For my final data visualization project, I chose to work with the World Religions Data set. This data set contains the amount of adherents of each religion in each country ranging from the year 1945 to 2010.
I decided to work with this dataset because I thought it would be interesting to visualize how the diversity of religions have changed and improve throughout time. It is also useful to view the most common or least common religion in each country. The topic of religion feels very relevant in this world today as well, because of the war going on in Israel.
In my visualization, the data is represented as colored dots on a map. Below, you can view a map of the world, with many dots ranging from different colors scattered about. These clusters of dots represent the different religions in each country–although not every country has its data represented. Each dot sometimes represents more than thousands of adherents to that specific religion.
To interact with the visualization, try moving the slider in the top left corner of the visualization screen. When you do so, the year will change and the dots will evolve so as to represent accurately what religion looked like in that year. In order to view how many adherents there are to each religion, simply hover your mouse over a specific country and a list of every single religion and its amount of adherents will pop up. You may also use your mouse click to move around the map and zoom in!
Color Key ✿
Judaism ●
Islam ●
Zoroastrian ●
Buddhism ●
Hindu ●
Sikh ●
Christianity ●
Shinto ●
Baha’i ●
Taoism ●
Syncretic Religions ●
Animist Religions ●
Non. Religious ●
Other Religions ●
Once I had the final code working, and I was able to slide the slider from 1945 all the way to 2010, it showed me that many more dots appeared when I was settled on 2010 then it did when I was on 1945. This was interesting because I hadn't considered how much religious diversity has obviously improved sins 1945. Of course, the number of non religious people in each country went way up also.
Something I still wonder about is if I had began the beginning year before 1945. I am interested to know exactly how much more it has changed since, perhaps, 1900.
Once I had the final code working, and I was able to slide the slider from 1945 all the way to 2010, it showed me that many more dots appeared when I was settled on 2010 then it did when I was on 1945. This was interesting because I hadn't considered how much religious diversity has obviously improved sins 1945. Of course, the number of non religious people in each country went way up also.
Something I still wonder about is if I had began the beginning year before 1945. I am interested to know exactly how much more it has changed since, perhaps, 1900.
The most challenging moment of this project was... honestly, preparing the data for coding. Although, of course, the coding portion of the project was also very difficult, the cleaning of the data was even more challenging for me. It consisted of deleting the many unnecessary rows, deleting all of the inaccurate rows, and inserting in new ones with more information. I would say that the data set is the most important part of my code, and it was important that it was perfect.
If I had more time, I would like to have added one more thing to the code. That would be to make it so that each circle's size was based on how many adherents there were to that specific religion in that year. If I had had enough time to achieve this, I think the visualization would be much more fluid and clear. It would be easier to understand at a first glance and it would add an extra level of depth the the code.
My proudest moment during this project was when I got the slider to work. I have never worked with that sort of thing for a previous coding project, and so it was excited when it finally pulled the entire project together as the last step!