For Data Visualisation

Try to design and give a suitable Figure to communicate a self-select aspect of the World Bank Singapore data, perhaps in an international context. A data set, to inform the select Figure, can be downloaded from, for example, the World Bank Singapore website, WB Singapore or Yahoo Finance.

Recommendation

The selected Figure can relate to the time series of GDP, stock prices, unemployment or CO2 emissions and

perhaps cross-country analyses, or to any subset of these data but also to any other financial/

economic data you find to be of interest.

Begin the exercise with a 'default' Figure (e.g. in Excel), to present a pertinent economic or financial

data set. Clarify and illustrate the decisions taken to generate the 'finalized' Figure.

Suggest people who can make a decision regarding the information contained in your Figure. Give a choice of display, declutter it and draw attention to what you want to emphasise.

Points to help for this tutorial question:

(1) a finalized Figure and a sequence of Figures to arrive at the finalized Figure

(2) explanation of the design choices made between

the 'default' initial Figure (likely a very poor data visualisation graphic) and the finalized Figure.

reference link for the data set:

- https://data.worldbank.org/country/singapore

- https://databank.worldbank.org/reports.aspx?source=2&country=SGP