For my final data visualization project, I chose to work with a data set about degrees of language endangerment around the world.Â
I decided to work with this dataset because I was interested to find out what trends there might be in where in the world languages are endangered/extinct and what they are.
In my visualization, the data is represented as dots on a map. The key in the bottom right corner shows what degree of endangerment is represented by each color.
To interact with the visualization, try hovering your mouse over data points on the map to see the vulnerability, language, and number of speakers (as of 2011). To see data points that are clumped together, you can zoom in on parts of the map with the + and - buttons in the top right and hover over them when they are separated. You can also click anywhere on the map to cycle through filters of vulnerability to focus on a specific endangerment.
One interesting thing I noticed during this project is California had so many extinct or critically endangered languages.
Something I still wonder about is what are the different factors of language endangerment that cause it to happen?
The most challenging moment of this project was getting the mouse clicked function to work. I tried on my own a couple times and each time it didn't work.
If I had more time, I would like to add buttons so that users can choose which color they want to cycle through, and only need to click the specific area so that they can move around the map without cycling through.
My proudest moment during this project was at the beginning of the project when I got my data cleaned and map working in the first class after some trial and error.