Because I am a big environmentalist, I chose the topic of deforestation. To do this, I chose to plot the change in forest cover (in percentage) for each individual continent from 1990-2020.
The data I used for this visual was originally published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Original published form: https://fra-data.fao.org/WO/assessment/fra2020
Where I obtained the data: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/forest-area-as-share-of-land-area?tab=chart&time=earliest..latest&country=EnglandScotlandFRA~USA
What I took from Wilke to use in this project is how we are telling a story. Though fighting deforestation is a global effort, it isn’t necessarily globally caused. There are places in the world in a state of reforestation, though deforestation does continue to outweigh reforestation. I wish I was able to show the change in forest cover numerically as well as graphically. Perhaps in my next attempt I’ll be able to include the change from the previous year in my traces. What I found most frustrating was the amount of coding required to make the graph. I made nearly an exactly identical graph of this data for a previous project in about half the amount of code.