Data Visualization

Blog of the Data Visualization & Communication Course at OSB-AUB

This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization” John Tukey

Race of the giants

Race of the giants

With China’s economic rise threatening the US, the rivalry between the two countries is at its peak; political tensions, trade wars, military maneuvers,…I will visualize in this post the shift of the economic power from the West towards the east, a shift that is undermining the US monopoly on world power, changing the world as we know it.

 

Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter

Patrick Lynn Warren Sr., Vincent “Vinny” M. Belmonte, Angelo Quinto, Andre Maurice Hill… What do these names mean to you? Probably nothing.
Michael Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, Lebron James… you probably got excited just hearing their names.
Well, the first group of people are a set of victims of police violence, their lives were so cheap that they were killed and shot dead unfairly. Police brutality and violence is an issue that we see everywhere, that accompanied with racism, is causing the world the lives of so many innocent people.
In our research we aim at highlighting this issue through facts and data visualized in graphs that emphasize the severity of the situation. We don’t stop there. We also tackle the black lives matter movement and its effect on the numbers of police-caused deaths and racism. Finally, we suggest a new potential solution and evaluate it

 

 

Risk of getting Bitten

Risk of getting Bitten

Think twice before approaching to an animal and especially to a dog, why?

Well.. After reading this you will consider counting to 10 before getting close to a specific breeds of dogs unless you’re ready to get a bite.

Let’s explore the resulted visuals and info we generated using a dataset that includes information on over 9,000 animal bites which occurred in the USA.

We saw that dogs are the most likely to bite human, let’s explore some data about dogs.

One advice, stay away from brown and black PitBul, and don’t play with a black Labrador. You might get a bite and even on your head.