Comments on other groups’ blogs
Firstly, for the interactive political rating line plot in the diverge part, this can clearly allow readers to see the specific political ratings of each region at each time point. But my concern is that the country on top will hide the country at the bottom when there have many countries with the same rating at the same time period in this diagram. Now in the given sample diagram, already shows this problem for Ethiopia and Zimbabwe from 2010 to 2016.
Secondly, I found the visual drawing of the stability of various regions is really interesting! But I couldn’t imagine how would you measure those roles of geographical adjacency since I am not really familiar with this? It would be awesome if you can use a suitable measurement to judge the stability of various regions.
Additionally, I also enjoy the interaction map or globe with an extra dimension in the converge part. The extra dimension can give a nice overviewing about GDP, Education, Covid Vaccine of a given country. This visualization can provide more contrast when looking for key relationships between variables.
Comment on Group 7 — Quandi
It makes me surprise your group create a website for the blog of the project. The cute pink sheep let me attractive to your project and I can’t wait to read about it.
For the first blog, it is clear that use the size of the circles shows the number of fatalities, and the color of the circles indicates the event type. But it makes me curious that the exact data of the biggest one. If you can add some detail about data, the reader can estimate the number of fatalities in every different size circle.
For all the blogs about the sketch, it is awesome that you guys can imagine so many ways to connect the factors (like countries, years, different subtypes of events, group of persons, and so on) I am want to know the answer about these kinds of relationship.
The plot of interaction between actors is interesting, you visualize the interaction between actors involved in conflicts in specific countries, it would be better if you can find the law between them. In the diagram of governance indicators, it looks cool that you show each country alongside the number of conflicts and fatalities during 2018–2021, hope you can find out if there are other ways to group countries that are not geographically located.
In some blogs, it’s very nice to use heuristic questions and sentences to connect to the next blog, it makes the reader have space to think and the tendency to keep reading.
Comment on Group 13 — Alexandros
Things to consider :
1) Although the idea of a map with arrows is really interesting, my concern is that after a certain number of arrows it will be hard to pinpoint the countries.
However, It is really helpful to check for continents. Perhaps you can create a world map that resembles a heat map depending on the volume of players that go out and another that goes in.
2) The idea of coloring the background of a symbolic shape for countries. Although it is interesting, my concern is that it would be too tiring to see each country like this.
Either each shape would have to be too small or the total graph would have to be too big to fit all the countries.
Things I found very interesting :
1) The modified bar chart for the distribution of nationalities
2) The circle with the attributes per league
3) The nationality mapping of the top 4 Leagues
4) The whole idea of checking if the predictions of a videogame materialize in the real world. It shows how much work is behind a simulation. Perhaps in the future
You can check for betting trends as well (since some people actually use such games with their own settings to predict an outcome and bet)
Comment on Group 21 — Vancesca
1. What a terrific idea to use animation to reshape the country’s boundaries! I’m curious to find out what you mean by displaying relationships among countries — in what sense? Keep this :) !
2. As for the visualization regarding the flow of skilled workers, it’s difficult for me to visualize what the end product will look like. Will the pie charts also be animated? I wonder how you’ll be able to showcase the effects of Trump’s policies on migration. How will you be able to ‘prove’ that it is due to Trump’s policies? Perhaps give a bit more thought into how to implement this properly!
3. The combined sankeyplots are so interesting! Perhaps there’s a way you can merge this idea with the first idea? I think they the sankeyplots and the globe visualization tell a similar story.
4. I’m so curious as to how you’ll merge the migration data with the terrorist data. The lines on the perimeter of the circle, at this moment, are a bit confusing to me. What do they represent? I think this is an interesting idea, but perhaps more clarity would be helpful :)
Looking forward to seeing all of your designs!
