Data Sketch – Beer Consumption (Top 4)

For this piece of data, I decided to show the top four most beer drinking countries per capita. As of 2018, the data is: Czech Republic (191.8 Liter p/year) Germany (101.1 Liter p/year) Romania (98.9 Liter p/year) Poland (98.2 Liter p/year) For some context, the American consumption of beer per capita is 73.5 Liter p/year–…

Data Sketch – College Enrollment Solar System

Data Sketch – College Enrollment Solar System By: Sameer Desai For my Data Art Project, I chose to represent undergraduate enrollment by race/ethnicity for a college. The data shows the total number of undergrads put into 9 categories: The reason I chose this data is because I thought it would be interesting to compare the…

Enrollment @ WPI by Racial/Ethnic Category

For my Data Sketch I decided to represent the mayor ethnic/racial groups around our campus. According to the WPI data I gathered from https://public.tableau.com/ these are the top 5 ethnic/racial groups around campus: White – 2878 (red torus) Non-resident alien – 423 (yellow torus) Hispanic/Latino – 423 (blue torus) Asian – 214 (green torus) Black/African…

Data Sketch – % of Individuals using the Internet

For my data sketch, I decided to make a visualization to show how usage of the internet varies from country to country and changes over time, since I find it interesting to see how our dependency on the internet has developed. The World Bank hosts a data set called “World Development Indicators”, and one of…

Data Sketch – Prevalence of AMI in Young Adults

For this data sketch assignment, I aimed to show the frequency of young adults who have dealt with Any Mental Illness(AMI). The National Institute of Mental Health reports that in young adults ages 18-25, 25.8% have lived with a mental illness. I found this alarming that about a quarter of people my age are dealing…

Data Sketch – Hurricanes Frequency

It is late at night and a perfect time for me to create a project idea. For this Data Sketch Project, I’m going to create a correlation between sea temperatures recently rising over the past decades over the amount of tropical storms that are increasing along with it. When I was young, I lived in…

Data Sketch – Air Quality Inequality

By Slater Campbell For my data sketch, I chose to draw attention to air quality inequality, and how many people living in big cities do not have access to clean or healthy air to breathe. I chose this topic because I am chronically allergic to airborne things and have been experimenting with air quality sensors…

Data Sketch – Projected World Population Growth

For my project, I wanted to tackle the issue of overpopulation. The statistics found at this link (https://ourworldindata.org/future-population-growth) present a prediction that the world’s population will exceed 10 billion by the year 2100. Given the population in 1800 was under 1 billion, the world will have seen over a 10x increase in just 300 years….

Data Sketch – Violent Crime Rates in MA Cities

Why did I choose this topic?:I lived in Brockton for 18 years and never really thought it was a dangerous city from how people outside of Brockton expressed it. One day, I searched the crime rate in Brockton and to my surprise it’s higher than a multitude of cities in Massachusetts. What does it depict?:The…

Data Sketch – Jewish Populations in Europe after the Holocaust

For my data sketch, I decided to show the dramatic decrease in the Jewish population after the Holocaust. While my family was not directly affected by the Holocaust, I have a deep connection with the history of the Jewish people, as I grew up Jewish and attended a Jewish middle and high school. In 1933,…

Data Sketch – European Bunny Population over time

In my opinion, this was relevant to me (and my identity) as I am extremely passionate about france and rabbits. Both have played a huge role in my life and I would not be who I am today without them. My Question for you is: I did a simple line to get across the idea…

People of Hispanic Origin in the USA

For my data sketch assignment, I displayed the percentage of people of Hispanic origin in the population of the United States of America. It is a really simple data point but it means a lot to a persons’ identity, including mine. It provides awareness of where you stand in a society and where you come…

Data Sketch – Comparing Gender of Children in China

Circles represent females and squares represent males. Why I chose this topic. I chose this topic because I am an adopted female from China. History of why males were preferred. Due to the huge population, which continued to grow, the one child policy was made in 1979. Males earned money and worked while females had…

Data Sketch – Comparative CO2 Emissions

For my data sketch, I chose a relatively simple data set regarding climate change, an issue rather close to my heart. Utilizing Our World In Data‘s CO2 Data explorer, I gathered the carbon dioxide emissions for Europe, Russia, and the United States. Interestingly, I found that while Europe and Russia put together have more population…