CGT 270 Data Visualization

Makeover Monday

Name: <Christian Martinez> Date: <10/22/23> Max points: 100

Lab section: wed Time: 11:30

Show your work!!!

Acquire

Gather the information needed from the Makeover Monday web page to complete this section.

Week: 1

Date: Jan 1 Year: 2018 Data: data.world

Source Article/Visualization:

2018/W1: U.S. Per Capita Consumption of Poultry & Livestock

https://www.makeovermonday.co.uk/data/

Represent

The source for the original visualization could not be accessed and only showed this error message:

According to what I could find on the internet this error is a server-side error so there is nothing that can
be done about it on my end so instead I looked online and found a posting of a graph with the exact same
source data.

https://changethrutime.com/2018/02/14/us-per-capita-consumption-of-poultry-and-livestock/

Critique

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What I dislike about the visualization is that visually it is hard to distinguish the pork and chicken colors
from a distance. On top of that the axis titles are missing which is a particular problem for the x axis
because it is using abbreviated label marks for years which can make it confusing for the viewer. What I
plan to do differently is avoid these problems when creating a new graph.

The category that the visual falls into is data visualization because it represents numerical in a schematic
form with a proper numerical axis. The method that most closely relates to the visualization is line graph.
The graph provides an overview of how per capita consumption of pork beef and chicken changes over
time. The details shown by the graph indicate that around 2015 the pork and beef consumption were
roughly the same as were beef and chicken around 1992. The details and overview show that what was
filtered out was fish and most of the categories for pork and poultry. The graph shows that over the years
there was a downward trend in the consumption of beef while pork remained largely the same and
chicken saw an upward trend in consumption over the years. And for each of the data sets represented in
the graph their lowest points were 2018 for beef 1966 for chicken and 1975 for pork.

Readings:

Paper: Periodic Table of Visualization Methods:

https://designsojourn.com/wp-content/uploads/periodic_table.pdf

Interactive Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

https://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

Mine

What question(s) are you attempting to answer? How much red meat and poultry are consumed in the
US per year?

Filter

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Stakeholders

• Who is your audience? What assumptions did you make? What visualization tool/software did
you use?
Audience: Large scale manufacturers of red meat and poultry
I assumed that values that fell into the category of estimates and forecasts could be grouped
into the same category as actual reported values. I also assumed that any types of red meat not
reported in the document (such as alligator or ostrich meat) are negligible to the categories of
total red meat and total poultry. Lastly, I assumed that sales on processed foods containing both
red meat and poultry such as spam were considered negligible and that the categories have no
overlap.
Excel was used to create the visualization.

What to submit: This document in PDF format only (if you do not know how to do this, see Lab 0
Exercise 1). Answer all of the questions. Save this document as:
LastnameFirstInitial_CGT270F23_MM#_YYYY.pdf. Replace # with the Makeover Number (1, 2, 3, etc.),
replace YYYY with the year the data is representing.

Choose the best layout for your makeover visualization: Portrait or Landscape, Remove the page of the
layout that you DO NOT choose. No blank pages!

Sketch your Makeover

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Refine (Makeover – Landscape view)

US Per Capita Consumption of Red Meat and Poultry

Total Red Meat & Poultry
Total Red Meat
Total Poultry
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meat consumed in LB

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Resources
Data Visualization Checklist:
http://stephanieevergreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DataVizChecklist_May2016.pdf

How to give constructive criticism: https://personalexcellence.co/blog/constructive-criticism/

Sample Makeovers: https://www.makeovermonday.co.uk/gallery/

Grading Rubric

Excellent Good Fair Needs Improvement

Meets ALL or most of these:
Makeover is esthetically
pleasing (color, perception),
best practices followed
(insightful), Correct dataset
downloaded; provided an
interesting point of view of
the data; critiqued previous
makeover, critique is
constructive (indicates one
thing that is done well, and
one thing that could be done
differently, what will be done
to improve the visualization),
assumptions (more than one)
are listed.
[50 pts]
Sketch included: hand drawn,
data vis best practices
evident.
[25 pts]
More advanced chart types
used
[25 pts]
Meets MOST of these:
Makeover is esthetically
pleasing (color,
perception), best practices
followed (insightful),
Correct dataset
downloaded; provided an
interesting point of view
of the data; critiqued
previous makeover,
critique is constructive
(indicates one thing that is
done well, and one thing
that could be done
differently, what will be
done to improve the
visualization),
assumptions (more than
one) are listed.
[25 pts]
Sketch included: hand
drawn, lacking data vis
best practices.
[12.5 pts]
More advanced chart
types used, followed most
best practices
[12.5 pts]
Consistently meets SOME of Little to no evidence
these: Makeover is of the understanding
esthetically pleasing (color, of the data
perception), best practices visualization process.
followed (insightful), Correct
dataset downloaded; Lackluster makeover
provided an interesting or no makeover.
point of view of the data;
critiqued previous Little effort.
makeover, critique is
constructive (indicates one
thing that is done well, and
one thing that could be
done differently, what will
be done to improve the
visualization), assumptions
(more than one) are listed.
[12.5 pts] [0 - 11 pts]
Sketch included, but was No sketch included.
generated by computer
[6.25 pts] [0 pts]
Basic chat types used in the Little to no
makeover improvement in visual
representation of the
[6.25 pts] data [0 pts]

Deductions

Description Deduction
File naming Convention not used -2
Did not remove unwanted/unused pages -3
Did not use data from the assigned year -5

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