Makeover Monday | Week 36 | 2019: Fall is the favourite season for most Americans

September 1st is the first day of autumn, meteorologically speaking. So I picked a dataset about how Americans feel about the different seasons.

The original viz and data comes from YouGov and looks like this:

What works well:

• It's a simple bar chart that is pretty easy to understand
• The title question is a good way to engage the audience
• The colors are simple
• Seasons and age groups are sorted in ascending order

What could be improved:

• While some bars stand out, it takes a while to really know the answer to the title question because as a reader you have to go back from the bars to the color legend
• None of the age groups' numbers add up to 100% - why?

What I did:

• Back to heat maps, because I find that they provide a simple, easy to read matrix structure that lets you understand the data more easily
• Added nice big labels and worked on clean formatting