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Past Presidents

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Aalexmacy
Last edited May 25, 2016
Created on Mar 23, 2016

This dashboard displays data about U.S. Presidents, including their party affiliations and time in office. It uses a sortable data table, two stacked single-row bar charts, and interactive filters to explore the data. The main row chart shows party representation across all presidents, resizing based on a selected time period via a brush slider, while a second chart displays the presidential timeline. Bars fade when outside the selected time period or when their party is deselected using checkbox filters. The visualization was designed as an alternative to pie charts, aiming to show comparable percentages of a whole with a stacked row chart approach.

AI-generated description

This dashboard was made for testing a couple different visualizations. Mainly a sortable data table and a stacked single-line row charts. It displays data about U.S Presidents, their party affiliations, duration in office, etc.

Pie charts are very convenient, but are not ideal for accurately displaying data - not to mention have a steadily decreasing amount of fans, so I wanted something that would easliy display comparable percentages of a whole, while not requiring less space than is needed for a histogram.

That brought me to making a stacked row chart that falls somewhere in the middle of the two. To do this, I repurposed a bar chart, gave all the bars the same height, and adjusting their width and placement based upon their percentage of the whole. The top row chart resizes based on the time period selected, and the bars on both charts fade when either outside of the selected time period or if their party is not selected.

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