SERENA

NUMBER OF MUSLIMS PER YEAR

THE DATA...

For my final data visualization project, I chose to work with the number of Muslims across the world from 1945 to 2010. I sorted this data by denomination.

I decided to work with this dataset because I like religious history; and I was curious if the number of Muslims had changed drastically because of any historical events in the past century.

THE VISUALIZATION...

In my visualization, the data is represented as dots on a scatter plot, which represent how many Muslims of each denomination there are, with 5 year intervals in between. (i.e. 2005 to 2010)

To interact with the visualization, try hovering over certain dots to see what they represent. You can also use the arrow keys to navigate between data sets.

MY OBSERVATIONS

One interesting thing I noticed during this project is that there are a LOT of denominations of Islam, which vary in popularity. There were also two denominations (which I didn't have the time to graph), who's number suddenly went from 0 to 200,000 back to 0 and back up again. I have no idea what happened there.

Something I still wonder about is how the exact amount of Muslims were calculated. The numbers were extremely specific, so I'm curious how they got it that precise.

MY PROCESS

The most challenging moment of this project was getting started with my graph. I was a little confused about how I wanted to even start approaching the graph, and I needed a lot of help with it.

If I had more time, I would like to add more fun animations when interacting with the data, and maybe add more datasets.

My proudest moment during this project was when I figured out how to make the arrow keys move between slides, because I didn't need very much help with it. It made my project feel a lot more complete.