It’s not surprising if one of the very first steps of an analysis is represented by a graph. Graphs are powerful instruments able to transform numbers in the language that our brain understands easily: the language of images. Due to the growth of data complexity and data dimension, last years have seen a drastic development of new forms of graphs. Uncountable new techniques have been conceived and widely accepted as a way for representing, communicating, showing, and better understanding the reality.
In “Give me 3 layers and I will describe the world”, we need your creativity to improve and explore further graph potentials. In particular, we ask you to create a multi-layer graph, i.e. 3 or more graphs one on top of the other representing 3 or more phenomena .
The goal is to understand visually if different phenomena have common patterns or if they are correlated.
Create a multi-layer graph as follows:
- Chose 3 or more representative aspects about the world among the 17 SDGs.
- Create one graph for each phenomenon at point one (the graphs can be all different or all the same): scatterplot, histogram, colormaps.
- Overlay the graphs you implemented in the second, one on top of the other in a final graph. The final graph has to be readable and should highlight some possible correlations or relations between the three (or more) phenomena you have chosen.
- A dashboard that allows to interact with the final graph, i.e. to select to display one, two or more layers at the same time.(optional)
- Coding
- Data vitalization
- Dashboard
- Creativity
Datasets to SDGs indicators: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/indicators/database/ [1]
Datasets in Eurostat for other phenomena: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database [2]
Datasets in Eurostat for geographical coordinates: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administ… [3]