Trying to get caught up on the Makeover Monday exercises from the last couple of weeks. I just finished week 5 which was on employment in the G7 countries. The original viz showed two pie charts on employment share and net employment growth in the G7 countries from 2010 – 2016

From reading the article the more important data point appeared to be the share of net employment growth in the US. I decided to turn that pie chart into a bar chart because I find it easier to see the differences in values with a bar chart than in a pie chart. I also adjusted the thickness of the bar to correspond to the measure. I kept the share of total employment in my remake as a reference point – I wanted the focus to be on the net share of employment so I added the share of total employment as a table. You can view the workbook on my Tableau public site.

In both my MOM and work dashboards I am starting to use the same theme. I like the clean look and find it easier to read dashboards on a light background. I think the darker backgrounds can be beautiful when they are done right but I have a hard time reading them and sometimes find them distracting. I’m getting new glasses in a few weeks and maybe when I get my progressives I’ll change my mind but for now I’m sticking with the light background!