Reflecting on the 30 Day Chart Challenge 2022

April – August 2022

Project description

In attempts to improve upon my data visualization skills, I took part in the 30 day chart challenge 2022. I will be honest and say I actually only completed the challenge much later, as finding, cleaning, analyzing and visualizing data for a chart every day of April proved to be too challenging alongside my other daily responsibilities. Nonetheless, the experience was very insightful and educational.

In this post, I share and reflect upon a few of my personal favorite visualizations. To view all of the visualizations I created, please refer to my instagram page (click here).

Based on data from Google Trends, I created this visual to illustrate how it seemed we collectively stopped caring about the pandemic as soon as Russia invaded Ukraine earlier this year. Sometimes a simple, classic graph is enough to convey a message.

The chart was prototyped in Microsoft Excel and then further realized in Adobe Illustrator.

This visual is packed with information. In hindsight, it may have been too much for a social media post that should typically be more bitesized. Nonetheless, I believe the information described in this visual is very important and eye-opening. So please do take the time to read it, if you’re interested.

The chart was realized in Adobe Illustrator.

Although this is not my favorite look and feel, the message again is crucial. People tend to have all sorts of excuses and “reasons” ready to argue for the gender pay gap. Yet this visualization shows how tiny the proportion is of what these “reasons” actually explain.

The chart was prototyped in RAWGraphs and then further realized in Adobe Illustrator.

This visual was inspired by other visuals I have seen on the same (or similar) data and I wanted to try it myself. I really like the end result and it became one of my more popular posts on instagram very quickly.

The chart was prototyped in Microsoft Excel and then further realized in Adobe Illustrator.

Honorary mentions

There were two times I incorporated pictures or rendered animations in my visualizations. This was an interesting experiment as I had never mixed and matched like that before. I believe this style definitely has appeal on a platform like instagram.

One of my visualizations from this challenge was reshared by the DataVizSociety (click here).