Presentation of website project that introduces the concept of Human Development Index, which includes an interactive visualization (choropleth and cartogram) and a table with sparklines (of some selected countries).

1. Human Development Index
A Brief Introduction
Omar Sosa-Tzec
School of Informatics & Computing
Indiana University Bloomington
info i590 Data Visualization
Instructor: YY Ahn - T.A.: Vikas Rao Pejaver
Indiana University Bloomington
Fall 2014

2. Motivation
Is there a way to understand a
complex situation?
To what extent is important to
understand that situation?
What approach to follow?

3. Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize 2014

4. Mexico
Rhetoric
Situation
Poverty GNI WB
Data

5. GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$)
GNI per capita (formerly GNP per capita) is the gross national income, converted to U.S. dollars
using the World Bank Atlas method, divided by the midyear population. GNI is the sum of value
added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the
valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and
property income) from abroad.
Country 1990 2000 2013
Canada 20,430 22,530 52,200
USA 24,150 36,090 53,670
Mexico 2,740 5,690 9,940
Norway 26,010 35,860 102,610
China 330 920 6,50

6. Purchasing power parity
Purchasing power parity conversion factor is the number of units of a country's currency required
to buy the same amounts of goods and services in the domestic market as U.S. dollar would buy
in the United States.
Country 1990 2000 2013
Canada 1.25 1.23 1.237
USA 1 1 1
Mexico 1.43 6.09 7.99
Norway 9.70 9.11 9.04
China 1.63 2.74 3.5

7. Mexico
Rhetoric
Situation
Data
Education UNESCO

8. Number of graduates
from tertiary education
Country 1999 2006 2013
Canada 225,050 N/A N/A
USA 2,069,033 2,639,006 3,308,494
Mexico 274,648 414,838 533,867
Norway 28,609 33,529 40,346
China N/A 5,622,795 9,135,720

9. Graduates in relation to population
Country 1999 2006 2012
Canada 0.73% N/A N/A
USA 0.74% 0.88% 1.05%
Mexico 0.27% 0.37% 0.44%
Norway 0.64% 0.72% 0.80%
China N/A 0.43% 0.68%

10. According to income-based measures of poverty, 1.2 billion
people live with $1.25 or less a day. However, according to
the UNDP Multidimensional Poverty Index, almost 1.5 billion
people in 91 developing countries are living in poverty with
overlapping deprivations in health, education and living
standards. And although poverty is declining overall, almost
800 million people are at risk of falling back into poverty if
setbacks occur. Many people face either structural or life-cycle
vulnerabilities.
UNDP Human Development Reports

11. Mexico
Rhetoric
Situation
Poverty GNI WB
Education UNESCO
Quality of Life HDI?
The World
Data

12. UNDP Human Development Reports
Human Development Index

13. A possible approach to comprehend
the idea of “wealth” in a broader sense
UNDP Human Development Reports
Human Development Index

14. Related Work
What has been done?
What has caught my attention?

15. UNDP HDR Public Data Explorer

16. UNDP HDR Public Data Explorer

17. UNDP HDR “Map”

18. UNDP HDR “Map”

19. Worldmapper Population Cartogram

20. Worldmapper Population Cartogram

21. Inspiration: Visions of Humanity

22. Inspiration: Visions of Humanity

23. Other sources of inspiration

24. Approach, Design
and Methods

25. Ideation
Sketching
Observation
D3 Examples
Data Collection
Search
Re!lection & Analysis
Tweaking
Choropleth
Cartogram
Data
HTML/CSS
Web brochure! JS

26. Sketches

27. Data
•HDI values from the UN website: [0,1]
•Education indexes from UNESCO: disregarded
•Total Population from the World Bank
•Primary dataset: HDI trends by UNDP HDR
•Data available: 1980,1990, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013
•Secondary dataset: total population from WB
•Data available for all the HDI values

28. Initial digital sketching

29. Digital sketching

30. Digital sketching: visualization rationale

31. Results

32. Final visualization http://tzec.com/hdi

34. Insights

35. From the visualization
•Besides China, India, and USA, the population from the rest
of the world seems to increase slowly.
•It seems that everyone is doing it well. HDI seems to
increase “linearly” for everyone, slowly though.
•In terms of HDI, India seems to be behind in the BRIC
•There are issues in the center of Africa

36. From making the visualization
•Tempted to use the cartogram for the HDI. Yet, I decided to
follow the “population” as in a normal cartogram
•I wasn't pleased, and have to tweak the cartogram until I felt I
was “not misleading”. There're rhetorical decisions in data/
information visualization.
•Color, typography and composition are relevant.
•I found e!fective the use of small multiples, sparklines, linear
representation for quantities, pre-attentive processing, layering,
redundancy

37. http://tzec.com/hdi
The images here shown are property of their author, and some
of them have been taken from the results of a web search.
All of them are employed for mere academic purposes.
Thank you!