The first thing that popped into my head for this data chart and graphic assignment was babies. I have a fascination with keeping up with baby name popularity and the government shares rankings by year dating back to decades ago of these names and where they rank. Because there is too many names to include on a chart, I decided to research fertility rates and became curious to learn more.
For my charts, I used Microsoft Excel to plug the data in and let the program do the magic. This took me a little bit to get the hang of because I wasn’t quite sure at first how to get the data to translate into a chart. Luckily, Microsoft includes a quick and easy tutorial right on their program that shows you exactly how to set up your date. I tried to play around with Canva once again, and wasn’t the biggest fan for a data type infographic such as this one. I do hope to explore it more and find good use for it on another subject. As for my final graphs, I chose pie chart and line graph. For the first one, I made it correlate to the actual Total Fertility Rate (TFR) for each of the North American Countries ranked. Then for the second one, I switched it up to focus on the actual ranking these North American countries had overall in the world. I did end up changing the colors around to make it my own and as appealing as possible, while still maintaining the topic’s professionalism.
I found this specific infographic to be a little harder than the last one because the last one was pertaining to myself. For this one I actually had to find a topic that I was truly interested in and do the research to find a trustee resource to use data from and apply it to my existing infographic knowledge, while retaining any new info I gathered from using Excel for this assignment.
My resource used was the Central Intelligence Agency website:
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