Alluvial Diagram of Titanic Passenger Stats
For this project, we had to choose an excel spreadsheet of information and find a graph that best displayed that information. I chose a spreadsheet containing stats of passengers aboard the Titanic because I have always found the Titanic and the stories of its passengers interesting (I've been to the museum in Branson way too many times). This spreadsheet gave the passengers age, sex, class on the ship, and whether they were a survivor or not.
This project was not the easiest, as I found it hard to find a graph that properly portrayed all the information given, and displayed it in a way that viewers get a story from it. The alluvial diagram did both of these things. Since the diagram uses sizes and colors as well as numbers to display information, you can glance at it and see right away which categories were the largest. For example, the largest section of the diagram is along the top, where the colors start at red, then change to light green, then to light blue. So after using the key to understand the graph you can easily look and see that the largest group on the ship (the top row) would be grown males, that were crew, and that did not survive.
So by viewing this diagram, you can infer that when it came to who got a spot on the safety rowboats, men were second to women, adults were second to kids, and crew came last behind first, second, and third class in importance. So the grown males that were crew were considered last when it came to who was to be rescued during the crash. I liked that this story could told through this diagram, and that is why I chose it.
