For my final project, I am going to look at Tim Renner’s, “Haunted Places in America.” dataset. This dataset lists haunted places and their location by state and city as well as specific location. According to the site, this “dataset is a scraped, cleaned, and geocoded collection of haunted places in the US”.
I plan to look at the information by state to see how many places are haunted in each state, by making charts in Tableau. If it is too large of a chart to show the information by state, I will combine the data so it goes by region. At least one chart will most likely consist of a bar chart to show the number of haunted locations in each state or region. A pie chart would probably be used to show the different types of hauntings. I plan to pick one state, most likely New York unless there is not enough information, to focus on the different types of places that are haunted.
Here is the link to my data critique information also.
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Two things to keep in mind: remember that to make meaningful comparisons across states, you’ll want to control for different populations across states like I showed here: https://dhpracticum21.maevekane.net/2021/04/05/proportions/
Remember also that pie charts are relatively hard to compare both a large number of things and hard in general for people to read. A chloropleth map or a tree map (the one of boxes within boxes) might be a better fit for what you’re trying to do.
Comparing different kinds of places is a great idea! To do this, you’ll probably want to add a new column to your spreadsheet and write in types of places by hand yourself. It will be a bit fiddly, but doable.
I just put up a short post + video for you on how to easily add a type column to save you some work: https://dhpracticum21.maevekane.net/2021/04/09/adding-type-columns/