Imagine a fusion of ‘Eskom se Push’ and ‘X’. The Republic allows users to raise concerns and spread awareness about government services through incident reports, with cool data visualizations providing a dynamic overview of public sentiment on service delivery.
Implemented logarithmic issue rate calculation to better handle small differences
Modified the stratify function to scale province sizes based on calculated issue rates
Adjusted rendering to emphasize province-level visualization
Removed issues that do not have locations associated with them
Why
The previous visualization didn't account for the population differences between provinces, potentially misrepresenting the relative significance of issues. This new approach provides a more nuanced view, allowing users to quickly identify provinces with disproportionately high issue rates relative to their population. As you can see in the screenshot below. Gauteng has more than double the issues of both WC and Limpopo, but the size of the dot is not double the size.
Notes
The scaling factors and logarithmic calculation can be further tuned if needed
We may want to consider adding a legend or tooltip to explain the new scaling method to users
A sacrifice I had to make was making the categories inside the province the same size
Further improvement
A color intensity scale that is linked to the issue rate in each province
Removing the placing the province data into another file
The formulas can be tweaked to show the size differences better
Changes
stratify
function to scale province sizes based on calculated issue ratesWhy
The previous visualization didn't account for the population differences between provinces, potentially misrepresenting the relative significance of issues. This new approach provides a more nuanced view, allowing users to quickly identify provinces with disproportionately high issue rates relative to their population. As you can see in the screenshot below. Gauteng has more than double the issues of both WC and Limpopo, but the size of the dot is not double the size.
Notes
Further improvement