Human Development Index Visualization

Human Development Index A Brief Introduction

Omar Sosa-TzecSchool of Informatics & ComputingIndiana University Bloomington

info i590 Data VisualizationInstructor: YY Ahn - T.A.: Vikas Rao PejaverIndiana University BloomingtonFall 2014

MotivationIs there a way to understand a complex situation?

To what extent is important to understand that situation?

What approach to follow?

Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize 2014

Mexico

Rhetoric

Situation

Poverty GNI WB

Data

Country 1990 2000 2013

Canada 20,430 22,530 52,200

USA 24,150 36,090 53,670

Mexico 2,740 5,690 9,940

Norway 26,010 35,860 102,610

China 330 920 6,50

GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$)GNI per capita (formerly GNP per capita) is the gross national income, converted to U.S. dollars using the World Bank Atlas method, divided by the midyear population. GNI is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad.

Country 1990 2000 2013

Canada 1.25 1.23 1.237

USA 1 1 1

Mexico 1.43 6.09 7.99

Norway 9.70 9.11 9.04

China 1.63 2.74 3.5

Purchasing power parityPurchasing power parity conversion factor is the number of units of a country's currency required to buy the same amounts of goods and services in the domestic market as U.S. dollar would buy in the United States.

Mexico

Rhetoric

Situation

Education UNESCO

Data

Country 1999 2006 2013

Canada 225,050 N/A N/A

USA 2,069,033 2,639,006 3,308,494

Mexico 274,648 414,838 533,867

Norway 28,609 33,529 40,346

China N/A 5,622,795 9,135,720

Number of graduates from tertiary education

Country 1999 2006 2012

Canada 0.73% N/A N/A

USA 0.74% 0.88% 1.05%

Mexico 0.27% 0.37% 0.44%

Norway 0.64% 0.72% 0.80%

China N/A 0.43% 0.68%

Graduates in relation to population

According to income-based measures of poverty, 1.2 billion people live with $1.25 or less a day. However, according to the UNDP Multidimensional Poverty Index, almost 1.5 billion people in 91 developing countries are living in poverty with overlapping deprivations in health, education and living standards. And although poverty is declining overall, almost 800 million people are at risk of falling back into poverty if setbacks occur. Many people face either structural or life-cycle vulnerabilities.

UNDP Human Development Reports

Mexico

Rhetoric

Situation

Poverty GNI WB

Education UNESCO

Quality of Life HDI?

The World

Data

UNDP Human Development Reports

Human Development Index

A possible approach to comprehend the idea of “wealth” in a broader sense

UNDP Human Development Reports

Human Development Index

Related WorkWhat has been done?

What has caught my attention?

UNDP HDR Public Data Explorer

UNDP HDR Public Data Explorer

UNDP HDR “Map”

UNDP HDR “Map”

Worldmapper Population Cartogram

Worldmapper Population Cartogram

Inspiration: Visions of Humanity

Inspiration: Visions of Humanity

Other sources of inspiration

Approach, Designand Methods

Sketching

Ideation

D3 Examples

ObservationSearch

Data Collection

Re!lection & Analysis

Choropleth

Tweaking

Cartogram

Data

HTML/CSS

JSWeb brochure!

Sketches

Data

•HDI values from the UN website: [0,1]

•Education indexes from UNESCO: disregarded

•Total Population from the World Bank

•Primary dataset: HDI trends by UNDP HDR

•Data available: 1980,1990, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013

•Secondary dataset: total population from WB

•Data available for all the HDI values

Initial digital sketching

Digital sketching

Digital sketching: visualization rationale

Results

Final visualization http://tzec.com/hdi

Insights

From the visualization

•Besides China, India, and USA, the population from the rest of the world seems to increase slowly.

•It seems that everyone is doing it well. HDI seems to increase “linearly” for everyone, slowly though.

•In terms of HDI, India seems to be behind in the BRIC

•There are issues in the center of Africa

From making the visualization

•Tempted to use the cartogram for the HDI. Yet, I decided to follow the “population” as in a normal cartogram

•I wasn't pleased, and have to tweak the cartogram until I felt I was “not misleading”. There're rhetorical decisions in data/information visualization.

•Color, typography and composition are relevant.

•I found e!fective the use of small multiples, sparklines, linear representation for quantities, pre-attentive processing, layering, redundancy

http://tzec.com/hdi

The images here shown are property of their author, and some of them have been taken from the results of a web search. All of them are employed for mere academic purposes.

Thank you!