Project archive

Seizures of Ammunition and Arms by Country 2017

2023

A brief report based on UNs 2020 Global Study on Firearms Trafficking.

The Evolution of Working Hours in the World

2023

This project consists in the replicaion and alternative representation of graphs from Our World in Data called "Working Hours".

Water Sanitation Visualization

2023

Graph on the use of water and water sanitisation tools among the various regions of the world.

Is the World Moving Enough?

2023

A look at the mortality due to low physical activity worldwide.

Public Trust in Government

2023

Visual representation of the evolution of public trust in the United States government by race and ethnicity from 1958 to 2023, as documented in the Pew Research Paper.

Causes of Deaths 2019

2023

Treemap that describe the causes of death before covid pandemic.

Changing Sources of Electricity Generation in the United States

2023

This graph describes how the sources of electricity generation in the United States have changed from 2001 to 2017.

American's Top Concerns 2022

2023

Most important issues for Americans, April-October 2022: step-by-step replication graph and a possible alternative.

Gender Pay Gap Graph Replication

2023

Using Eurstat data to reproduce the Gender Pay Gap graph of 2020.

The Growth of the Oil Industry

2023

Replication of a graph from El Orden Mundial which aims to represent the evolution of oil production since 1910.

Unveiling Birth Clinical Practice in Spain: Mapping the Cesarian Sections and Birth Dynamics

2023

Exploring the nuances of maternal healthcare in Spain through an augmented map, showcasing original cesarean section rates alongside additional insights such as total births per autonomous community and cesarean rates adjusted for the average maternal age.

The Demography of the World Population from 1950 to 2100

2023

Visualizing how global demography has changed and what we can expect for the 21st - century Our World in Data.

How Britain Voted in the E.U. Referendum

2023

Britons voted on Thursday to leave the European Union. The Leave side led with 17.4 million votes, or 52 percent, versus the Remain side’s 16.1 million, or 48 percent, with a turnout of around 72 percent.

We Feel It Already. How About We Visualize It?

2023

Summer temperatures are getting hotter and this plot does a pretty good job at showing that.

The Evolution of the US Military Deployment

2023

Visualising data on the evolution of the US military presence around the world from 1950 to 2020.

Sex Gap in Life Expectancy in Spain

2023

How many more years do Spanish women live compared to men? This project replicates and enhaces a World in Data graph showing the evolution of the sex gap in life expectancy from 1908 to 2018 in Spain.

Change in Abortion after Dobbs

2023

Visualization of the change in abortion data after the Dobbs decision, which gave power of legislation over abortion to the different states of the U.S.

Post-COVID Wallet Woes: The High Cost of Living

2023

COVID-19 had a major impact on the economy and effectively affected the consumption patterns of European households.

Public Trust in Government Hits Historic Lows

2023

Using Pew Research data to visualize the evolution of public trust towards different U.S. governments between 1972 and 2023.

With Whom Did We Spend Our Time in 2020?

2023

This article goes through the steps of recreating a bar chart with small multiples using the ggplot2 package in R. The original chart shows the distributions, by age, with whom we spend our time. The replication and enhanced versions include new data from the year 2020.

Life Expectancy Increased in All Countries of the World

2023

The aim of this project is to reproduce, layer by layer, a chart on Life Expectancy evolution from Our World in Data.

Cigarettes Sales and Lung Cancer Mortality in the US

2023

Every year, around 8 million people die prematurely as a result of smoking. In this case, examining the relationship across the cigarettes sales in men in the United States.

Annual Global Corporate Investment in AI by Type

2023

This project replicates a graph from Our World in Data and proposes an improvement.

Women's Suffrage Across Time

2023

The recreation of a graph illustrating the development of the women's suffrage movement throughout the years.This graph is replicated and then improved by adding data describing the development of women's political participation.

Bipartisanship Unveiled: The Evolution of Recent History in the Spanish Congress

2023

Replication and alternative rendition of a streamgraph sourced from El Orden Mundial, utilizing data on congressional deputies available on the official website of the Spanish Congress.

Mexico's Export Dynamics from 1996 to 2020 by Sector

2023

Replication and alternative version of the over time graph sector exports of Mexico by the Growth Lab at Harvard University.

The Phenomenon of Poverty

2023

Visualizing the global distribution of disposable income between 1990 and 2019- Our World in Data.

Energy Generation by Fuel Type

2023

Using the Energy Institute’s data to reproduce Bloomberg’s chart and to provide an alternative representation.

Club Convergence Graphs

2023

Visual representation of Convergence Clubs for European countries in terms of R&D spending following KMeans and Phillips&Sul methodologies.

The world is progressively embracing democracy

2023

A reproduction of the Our World in Data visualization, which is based on the classification and assessment of countries' political regimes by Skaaning et al. (2015).

What Future for Amazon - Some Lessons from the Past

2022

Evolution of Amazon Deforestation (1988 - 2021) with Basis on Inpe - Sistema PRODES Data.

HDI - What a time to be alive

2022

Using the United Nation's Human Development Index (HDI) data to produce The Economist's map and other visualizations.

Satellite images defy economic data of authoritarian regimes

2022

Highly customized dumbbell chart that compares official GDP against satellite-based estimation of GDP, across 103 countries.

Use of Social Media Platforms in 2021 (U.S.) by Demographic Group

2022

Replication and alternative version of a heatmap from 'Social Media Use in 2021' (Pew Research Center).

Steph Curry's 3-Point Record in Context: Off the Charts

2022

In this project, I will explain how to replicate a graph of the three-point field goals made over the course of a season for every player in a range of time. The graph shows a relevant difference in cumulative sums between the current seasons and the previous ones. First, I will clean the dataset according to the variables that I need. Second, I will present step by step how to reproduce the graph using ggplot2 package.

Views on Financial Well-Being of Future Generations

2022

In this post I recreate a Pew Research graph and propose an alternative visualization of the data.

Worldwide Top 10 Listened Songs in Spotify

2022

This project is about a visualization of the ten most listened songs between June and August 2022 in Spotify.

Military Spending

2022

In this article I have a walkthrough on how to create a graph as closely as possible that was published by the New York Times with ggplot2, but is it graph or a map paste(graph,map); it is both. It shows the country military spending in respect to the geolocation of the country.

Searches of common jobs: women tends to appear lower than men

2022

A replication of the graph made by Pew Research Center about the topic and another proposal.

Restrictions on religion among the most populated countries across time

2022

A replication of a graph from Pew Research Center on the restrictions on religion among the 25 most populous countries.

The World Bank's Richer Countries Tend to Have Higher National Poverty Lines Chart

2022

The aim of this project is to recreate and improve a chart from the first Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals.

Social Dissent in China by ‘The Economist’: How Frequent are Protests in the Country?

2022

An explanation of my layer-by-layer construction of a chart representing social dissent in China geospatially and by issue. This article consists in the replication of a plot made by The Economist's, continuing with an alternative representation using similar data. The critique of the strengths and weaknesses of the original chart and the successive transformations of the chart are fundamented in data visualization theory.

Percentage of elders feeling lonely

2022

Visualizing and comparing loneliness percentage among elders between different countries, through barplots and maps.

New York Times market share graph

2022

In this article I explain how I replicated a New York Times chart in R and the process of creating a different chart with ggplot2 with the same data. I'll also explain the limitations of replication and alternative visualization, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of both charts, based on data visualization theory.

Car fleet by antiquity in Spain

2022

Car accident rate is directly related to the antigüity of the vehicle. The graph represents car fleet and its age along 10 years. I will replicate it as closely as possible, as weel as providing a visualization alternative.

Education Attainment Graph

2022

This project consists in the replicaion and alternative representation of a graph from a New York Times article called "Where Education Drives Mobility".

Population Perspectives

2022

A graph about population in 2017 and 2100 will be replicated and an alternative way of visualizing this graph will be presented.

Social Media Use in 2021

2022

Social Media Use evolution in the USA for 11 major platforms: step-by-step replication of the graph, possible enhancements and alternative visualization.

Effect of the introduction of the polio vaccine in the US

2022

This project has two purposes: to reproduce the plot published in 2015 in the Wall Street Journal article 'Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines', and to propose an improved visualization.

Country Convergence

2022

This project enables the user to recreate a specific graph in OurWorldinData on GDP per capita layer by layer. It also introduces two alternative representations resorting to the same data.

Bump chart: How Americans spend their money

2022

Code to replicate the graph in `ggplot2` and some improvements.

Distribution of state investment by autonomous communities

2022

This following page is a guide, of how to reproduce step by step, the plot of "El Mundo Gráficos" done by the student Pablo Arroyo as a final project for the subject.

GDP Forecasts for China's Cities by 'The Economist': Coastal Areas Have the Highest Growth Potential

2022

A layer-by-layer construction of a map of China containing information on forecasted GDP growth and population for over 100 cities.

Gapminder's World Health Chart

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This tutorial reproduces one of the most popular data visualizations ever and serves as an example project for this course

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