Project 2

As part of World Values Survey’s cultural context, I chose to visualize a survey question concerning people’s views on wealth. I was curious to find out how important do different societies consider the material wealth. Apart from the nationality of the survey’s respondents, I thought it was interesting to combine it with another variable, such as the educational level of the respondents. Hopefully this could offer a valuable insight into how education affects people’s perspective towards the significance or vanity of the state of having a lot of money and expensive things.

The visualization I chose is a "donut" chart type with multiple charts on the same page representing each country separately. The source code can be found here. The adjustments required for the present project's case were:

1. Acquiring the data of interest from World Values Survey website and adjusting them to csv format with countries as a new value instead of states and the scale of importance instead of the old age group values.
2. Separating the above modified data into 9 different sets of data, each for the respective educational level of the respondent and 1 set of the total (all educational levels) survey results for all the countries.
3. Distributing the new csv files to new folders with respective index files and indicating their context by entitling them.

Below are the links of the visualizations in an ascending order of educational level attained. Last one is the visualization of the total numbers. Wherever the charts are missing is due to lack of available data for the specific variables.

• No formal education
• Inadequately completed elementary education
• Completed (compulsory) elementary education
• Incomplete secondary school technical/vocational type/(Compulsory) elementary education and basic vocational qualification
• Complete secondary school technical/vocational type/Secondary, intermediate vocational qualification
• Incomplete secondary university-preparatory type/Secondary, intermediate general qualification
• Complete secondary university-preparatory type/Full secondary, maturity level certificate
• Some university without degree/Higher education - lower-level tertiary certificate
• University with degree/Higher education - upper-level tertiary certificate
• Total

Ideally, all these visualizations could be integrated on a single page, where the user should be able to have a much higher interaction with them. For example the page could be equipped with a slider representing the various educational levels on a constant scale. As the user would adjust the "education" scale, the "donut" charts would be live transformed accordingly. This could offer significantly more interactiveness and usability. Unfortunately, such implementation was beyond my capabilities given the time limitations.