We visualise in order to gain an insight and understand complex articles.
The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization by Alberto Cairo: Talks about the world’s population and the rising fertility; countries in poverty. Highlights young group population and the relevant topic on them such as violence.
Fertility rates have been dropping throughout the years. The two trends: rich countries began to rise in fertility while poorer countries have began to drop. Such as the booming economical rate in Brazil; in 1950s there were six children per women to 2010s having less than two children per women.
Fertility rates around the world will converge around 2.1% in a few decades and the world population will stabilise it. The insufficient claims were that if the world population changes, the fertility rate has been negative; the closer to the present the negative the pattern line. Though this graph had made its point, countries such as China and Brazil have began to stabilise their popularity and fertility rate.
Reflection:
I’ve learned that in order to depict difficult social concerns, visualising this data is a strong method in helping readers understand and gain an insight to complex articles. When these statistics are broken down and adhere to design principles aligned with numerical factors, it does wonders and changes. It’s important to document these articles and world changes through data visualisation.
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