Tile Narrative: Unemployment in the US

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The US unemployment rate peaked at 14.7% in April 2020, the highest rate since the Great Depression.

In June, 20 states had unemployment rate higher than 10%, of which, 4 states had an unemployment rate over 15%.

Tile Narrative: Unemployment in the United States

I reused the tile narrative format for this interactive to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected employment levels across the United States.

Tile Narrative: Scrollytelling with Grid Maps

Sat, 18 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Republished on Data Visualization Society’s Nightingale

While choropleth maps are the go-to method to visualize geographic data, they tend to skew attention towards the bigger states (blocks). Some data stories need equal emphasis for each block (state) and be arranged in a way that is close to the actual map representation. That is where tile grid maps shine. As Danny DeBelius points out, they can be the perfect way to avoid the visual imbalances typical to traditional choropleths.

Scrollytelling on Pratap Vardhan

Tile Narrative: Unemployment in the US

Tile Narrative: Unemployment in the United States

Tile Narrative: Scrollytelling with Grid Maps