For my final data visualization project, I chose to work with a dataset about the frequency of climate-related disasters in different countries over the years 1980-2022.
I decided to work with this dataset because I want to educate people about the effects of climate change, and to prove that it has gotten much worse in the recent years.
In my visualization, the data is represented as dots on a map that represent each country, and the size changed depending on how many disasters occurred during that year.
To interact with the visualization, try clicking anywhere on the map to move forward in time. You can also hover over the dots to see the specific number of disasters that occurred in that country.
One interesting thing I noticed during this project is that you can see how the amount of climate disasters kept increasing steadily throughout the years, especially in the USA.
Something I still wonder about is how we can prevent these disasters becoming even worse and more frequent.Â
The most challenging moment of this project was implementing the time system, as I was struggling with figuring out how to properly visualize the changes between years.
If I had more time, I would like to add a feature where you can select a specific disaster, as the dataset I used had data for specific disasters, and I only mapped the total number that occurred.
My proudest moment during this project was when I figured out how to go through the years by clicking.