📅 2023-03-31 — Session: Developed data visualizations for project analysis

🕒 18:05–18:30
🏷️ Labels: Data Visualization, Python, Matplotlib, Bar Chart, Data Analysis
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to develop and refine data visualizations comparing Chinese and World Bank projects across various administrative areas and years.

Key Activities

  • Created stacked bar charts to display the number of projects by administrative area using Python and Matplotlib.
  • Implemented techniques for rotating x-axis labels to improve readability.
  • Developed split bar plots to compare funding by recipient over multiple years.
  • Utilized pandas to enforce datetime data types when reading CSV files.
  • Addressed mismatched tick locations and labels in Matplotlib plots, ensuring proper alignment and labeling.

Achievements

  • Successfully generated multiple types of bar plots, including stacked, split, and grouped, to visualize project data effectively.
  • Improved code readability and plot aesthetics by updating labels and bar widths.
  • Resolved errors related to tick locations, ensuring accurate data representation.

Pending Tasks

  • Further refinement of visualizations may be needed based on stakeholder feedback, particularly in terms of aesthetic adjustments and additional data integration.