Ideas You Should Steal From This Viz (Installment 13)

“All creative work builds on what came before.” —Austin Kleon in Steal Like An Artist.

Today I offer up another steal-worthy interactive viz that I came across in the Tableau Public Gallery . Scroll down to see what you should steal from it.

(Click on image below to see interactive version.)

Here’s what I suggest you steal from this viz:

• Small Multiples. To highlight each country and to allow for easy comparisons across countries, Smilga created one small chart per country and placed them alongside each other, aka a “small multiples chart.”
• Gray comparison trends. While Smilga highlights the trend for the featured country in each chart using color, the trends for other countries are also in each chart but in a light gray. This allows us to easily compare the trend for the featured country to that of others in general.
• Color distinguishes trend types. Recent downward trends are highlighted in red, and recent upward trends are highlighted in blue.
• Choose your view. Smilga allows the viewer to customize the view by selecting the number of columns, time period, and countries shown.

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