For my final data visualization project, I chose to work with the extinct languages data set.
I decided to work with this dataset because I thought it was important to show and represent languages that are dying or already extinct.
In my visualization, the data is represented as the location of the languages as dots on latitude longitude coordinates across a map. The size of the dots represents how endangered the language is. The larger, the less vulnerable.
To interact with the visualization, try hovering your mouse over the dots and it will tell you the name of the language as well as the amount of people who speak it. By clicking on one of the dots, it tells you more information about the language.
One interesting thing I noticed during this project is the amount of extinct languages in the continent of North America, probably due to the loss of Indigenous people's culture.
Something I still wonder about is if a language is extinct, how do they know it existed?
The most challenging moment of this project was firguring out how to represent how endangered a language is with the size of a circle.
If I had more time, I would like to add more features that represent the dataset.
My proudest moment during this project was when I got the bubbles with multiple sizes to work.