This week has to be quick because I’m official on holidays and it’s so sunny outside that it would be criminal to spend too much time in front of a screen.

Charlie selected a dataset about teacher salaries in England. I saw a lot of cool visualizations throughout the week and plenty of creativity and good analysis. Here is the original viz:

https://learningtableaublog.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/screenshot-2020-09-11-at-20.50.00.png

What works well:

  • The title, while boring, is fairly descriptive and specific
  • Each color is labeled in the legend

What could be improved:

  • The chart needs a proper title
  • The color legend and colored bars dominate everything, so it’s really hard to see what this is actually about
  • Why are the different levels and genders all mixes in together?
  • There need to be unit labels for the metric: this is in GBP

What I did:

  • A quick and simple bar chart so I can go back to enjoying the sunshine and spending time with my favourite people 🙂