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[OC] Heatmaps plotting percentages of peaks for various Italian industries over a century (TidyTuesday)

[OC] Heatmaps plotting percentages of peaks for various Italian industries over a century (TidyTuesday)

Tools: RStudio, Quarto, Echarts4R, Inkscape

Tidy Tuesday this week explores Italy's industrial production statistics courtesy of Istat.

After starting with a simple line chart to plot amounts on a timeline, I found the plot a little difficult absorb over the period of a century. I pivoted to the trusty heatmap where I was able to flatten by a dimension, and further simplified the lens by normalising the data to look at each value as a percentage of the variable's peak.

The result is three stacked-and-aligned heatmaps that highlight the impact of the 1943 Allied Invasion on production volume, as well as how some products did not recover back to post-war.

The .qmd file, along with all the tables and scripts are now uploaded to my repo

Open to freelance data viz/reporting work

u/AFRIKANIZ3D — 10 days ago