When I thought about using my own data to make something, I realized that the travel data I have is very interesting. It not only helps me keep track of where I’ve been, but it also gives people who want to visit these places an idea of how much money they can budget for this trip and where it was most worthwhile to visit. I’ve kept track of information from previous trips, including the dates I went, the names of the countries and cities I visited, how long I stayed there, the total cost, the cost of my airfare and lodging, and any photos I took while I was there. So, my research question will be, “Look into how much money I’ve spent where, and how many days it took to spend it, and what did I see.” This is a long-term track I want to keep when I travel to new places; it’s very cool to collect data like this and visualize it.
My target audience will be people who enjoy traveling and want to know where they should go first; my visualization will provide them with some insights.
People should be able to see how much money I spent on each trip from my visualization, as well as where you should go, and which places are the most worthwhile to visit.
First, I created a world map to show myself and others where I had been.
Then I use treemaps to show how much I love the city that I’ve been to, the size of the treemaps makes it easy to show confidence in the likeness scale.
The major expenses for trips are hotels, flights, and other expenses such as food, tickets, shopping, and city transportation, so I show these three categories in a bar chart to show others how the cost spread varies by country.
I’d like to investigate whether there’s a link between the amount of money spent and the scale of likeness, as well as whether there’s a link between the cost and the number of photos taken. After trying out various chart types, I decided to use a line chart to show multiple cities to determine whether there is a relationship between the cost and the number of photos taken, because it’s simple to understand and compare, I believe that including an x-axis and y-axis when presenting this visual is essential and understandable.
Additionally, a circles chart with an x-axis and y-axis that displays the correlation between the amount of money spent and the scale of likeness in each city makes the visual easy to read.
I did not anticipate being able to create a visual like this when I enrolled in this course, and I feel my data is not clear enough or sufficient for this project. I was having difficulty putting something together for the data I had because I kept thinking about putting my data in statistics-type questions, so I got stuck on how to present the data in charts and graphs for what I had so far.
Since we use credit cards and Apple Pay so frequently these days, gathering data like this is not difficult. At the conclusion of the trip, we can check credit/debit card statements. In the future, I’ll keep track of my travel expenses for each trip I take, I’ll likely break down into more specific categories like food, lodging, and entertainment. Additionally, perhaps include a brief comment or note after each trip so I can use wordcloud for text mining to identify the key words that stand out the most.
