Over the holiday season I heard several discussions on which charities are best to donate to and why some are better than others. With this in mind, I thought it would be interesting to examine the stats which set one charity over another and find a way to visualize these in an effective manner. With some help from Charity Navigator, I was able to source and collect the appropriate information and thought it a great time to finally give Plotly a go.

An assortment of word clouds I made from lyrics I scraped for a school project. Size of each word is relative to frequency of usage by the artist in (up to) 150 of their most recent songs. Mount Eerie references nature a lot while Aesop Rock just references A LOT of things. Harry and the Potters, well... .

A few visuals I created in Tableau displaying some trends in life expectancy by country. Data was sources from the World Bank Open Data website and includes life expectancy at birth of around 200 countries from between 1968 and 2014. Originally conducted for SNHU Data Visualization homework assignment in which to express data in five different method classifications: comparison, hierarchical, temporal, correlation, and geo-spatial.

My wife and I have a child on the way! With this on my mind lately, I thought it would be interesting to grab some data and visualize tendencies seen throughout pregnancy and birth. I dug into CDC: National Center for Health Statistics and Social Security datasets and found a few interesting trends to visualize.