Data source: CivicScience InsightStore.
Visualization produced with Infogram.
The visualization is telling us the percentages of different age groups on whether they agree, disagree, aren’t sure, or have no opinion on if cellphones should be banned in school? It’s separated by age group, on three different horizontal graphs, each being color coded. The three questions that the Carson MacPherson-Krutsky’s article is asking is what is this figure trying to tell me? How are color, shape, size and perspective used? Where does the data come from? This figure is trying to tell me what percentages of different age groups have differing opinions on whether or not cellphone should be banned in school. Color is utilized a lot here, they used a darker background, and color coded the different opinion percentages. All three graphs have the same bar shape to them. The data comes from CivicScience InsightStore and it’s produced with Infogram.
I would change the visualization to be a standard bar graph with a light background. Because of the light background, I would change the “I’m not sure” and the “Other/No opinion” categories to a different color, maybe green and purple. I would also combine the percentages of the age groups on the x-axis, but leave space in between them so it’s easier to read. By having the graph vertical, and the age groups spaced out a little bit, would help the audience read the information better. Changing the colors can also have a positive impact and not be as harsh to look at as well. In MacPherson-Krutsky’s article, she says, “a bar chart is a better option for an informative display.” I would also label the x and y-axis to make sure the audience knew what they were looking at. The x axis would be the different age groups and the y axis would be the percentages. I would still have a key with the other colors I suggested in the graph.
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