We used Tableau Desktop, Infogram, Tableau Public, Tableau Online and Google Sheets.
Kelly Lee, Katie Hoang, and Lisa Matsumoto
To contribute to the discussion of the digital divide and the people left out of the “global village”, it is important to analyze the trends. Especially in 2020, we require internet usage more than ever. The need to close this digital divide is crucial in today’s world.
By finding trends, it might give us insight into the reasons for the digital divide. It can show us who are the people that are left out of the digital world and who are thriving. From the trends we find, we would find other sources to explain and add to the analysis.
Tableau: https://public.tableau.com/shared/B2DQDRSKT?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link
Infogram: https://infogram.com/info419-1hxj48p58xrkq2v?livehttps://infogram.com/africa-v-europe-1h7v4pwno1vdj6k?live
Our datasets include the following:
The data used in the visualization is from UN Data, a website where users can download a variety of statistical resources compiled by the UN statistical system and other international agencies (UNdata, 2020). The source of the data is the International Telecommunications Union’s database (ITU, 2020).
For the cleaning of the data, we separated the single sheet of data to three different sheets; named “countries”, “region”, and “total”, separating different categories of the first column. Another roadblock we have encountered was the relationship between “region” and “value” as regions only applied to some continents. As the nature of the values represents the percentage of population, it wasn’t possible to combine different values of different regions to a single combined data. However, as our group thought the comparison between different territories was an essential part of our story, we proceeded to add another column in the worksheet of “countries”, representing the geographical continents of each country.