Interactive Data Graphic
An interactive data visualisation on the World Freedom Index from 2008 to 2018.
The task of the course was to create a data visualisation from a self-selected data set. This was done using JavaScript, jQuery, CSS3 and HTML5 and the libraries gmynd.js and chroma.js. The data is presented interactively without the aid of pictorial elements (pictograms, photographs, ...). Alphanumeric characters (text, numbers) should be used as sparingly as possible.
Time frame:
5 months, 2021
Course:
Programmiertes Entwerfen
@HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd
Topic selection: Data set
The Human Freedom Index
"A Global Measurement of Personal, Civil, and Economic Freedom.”
Countries are rated from 1 to 10 on freedom under the following categories:
Rule of Law
Security and Safety
Movement
Religion
Association, Assembly, and Civil Society
Expression and Information
Identity and Relationships
Size of Government
Legal System and Property Rights
Access to Sound Money
Freedom to Trade Internationally
Regulation of Credit, Labor, and Business
Context
A central purpose of the Human Freedom Index is to provide a broad but reasonably accurate picture of overall freedom in the world. A larger goal is to examine more closely what we mean by freedom and to better understand its relationship to a range of other social and economic phenomena.
Content
(Ian Vásquez and Fred McMahon, The Human Freedom Index 2020: A Global Measurement of Personal, Civil, and Economic Freedom (Washington: Cato Institute and the Fraser Institute, 2020).