Makeover Monday week 44, 2018: Everybody poops

Tackling this Makeover Monday dataset in a slightly zombie state while waiting for my connection from London to Frankfurt as I fly home from TC18 in New Orleans...And then there is a dataset about poo. Who would have thought? But sometimes we need something as ordinary as that to keep things from getting too serious :-).So here is the original viz...

What works well:

• Simple bar chart that adds to 100% for each category
• Large numbers to label each bar
• Descriptive labels for each category
• References to data source and timeframe of the survey
• Descriptive title and subtitle
• Distinct colors

What could be improved:

• The color for 'not always' is green, but green to me indicates something positive where in this context it is something that makes me go 'ewwww'
• There are a lot of categories for men and women and where they poop or pee and how they do it. This results in a lot of bars and makes it hard to draw any real conclusions

What I did:

• Focused on the category of 'at work'
• Created a simpler bar chart
• Decided to highlight the 'ewww' people who I wouldn't want to shake hands with (if I knew who they were)

Click for the interactive version