Visualizing with ManyEyes

FIND YOUR DATA

  1. Back to World Bank http://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx
  2. Databases, World Development Indicators
  3. Choose:
    1. Country: OECD High income
    2. Series: Environment, emissions:
      1. CO2 emissions (kt)
      2. CO2 emissions (metric tons per capita)
    3. Date back 5 year, 2009 in order we make sure we get the most recent date with both date sets.
  4. Click Table
  5. Check years for data.
  6. Back to data selection menu, select only 2010
  7. Check orientation
  8. Apply changes
  9. Download
  10. Open file in Excel

CLEAN DATA IN EXCEL

  1. Copy contents and paste in a new spreadsheet, rename.
  2. Inspect
  3. Clean – Delete unnecessary columns
  4. Rename Columns
  5. Save

VISUALIZE YOUR DATA IN MANY EYES

  1. Open Many Eyes http://www-969.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/#/
  2. Create account
  3. Login
  4. Copy data into Step 1 of Many Eyes
  5. Check preview and column types
  6. Choose the bubble chart
  7. Change to per capita

 

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