Mary Hanna's Portfolio

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CC1 - Hosting. Display charts in your own site.

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CC2 - Building. Create your own visualisations.

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A chart of internal displacement in the DRC.

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A chart of exports from the DRC.

CC3 - Debating. Use a visualisation in economic/policy commentary.

2024's Festival of Economics featured the discussion, "The kids aren’t alright: Tackling a legacy of child poverty, bad diets and poor health." This topic inspired me to explore a key part of children's health - mental health.

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The kids are indeed not alright, with probable mental health disorders increasing in England since 2017, experiences which tend to coincide with major family hardship.

CC4 - Replication. Re-create, then improve, someone else's chart.

I scraped the data found on this Washington Post article and replicated the original visualisation. My new chart disaggregates donor info, explorable through tooltip.

The original chart

Image of chart from Washington Post article

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CC5 - Scraper. Implement a data scraper of your own.

I scraped the British Transport Police’s list of stations to retrieve crime data (specifically in TfL stations). I chose this site for its relevance to my project.

Jupyter notebook (step-by-step explanations). Colab notebook.

CC6 - Loops. Build a dashboard.

Colab notebook.

CC7 - Maps. Base maps and choropleths.

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Map 1 is a base map of London boroughs. Map 2 shows the percentage of households throughout all London borough without access to a car or van (source: ONS, 2021 UK Census).

CC8 - Analytics charts.

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CC9 - Big data. Extracting a story from millions of prices.

These two charts utilize ONS microdata via Davies (2021) to track the median yearly prices of two personal health items in the UK – tampons and vitamins. The price data was 1) merged with region data and then filtered for the target items and their median prices.

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CC10 - Interactive visualisations.

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Interactive element: click on legend to isolate underground lines.

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Interactive element: use the checkboxes to see extent of TfL's network. Hover over bike dock points for bike totals. Hover over stations/bus stops for names.