Thursday, June 14, 2012

Depiction of complex information and relationship among data points

McKinsey Global Institute’s report on global workers – The world at work: Jobs, pay, and skills for 3.5 billion people – June 2012 which describes labour spread in very comprehensive way. Déjà vu, I want inforgrabic which can depict relationship among age, education, spread in education, spread in age, and number of workers of countries surveyed. Despite of full of infograpics and comprehensive information, report does not have this information. The closest infograpic which can fit into the bill was Exhibit E3.

Exhibit E3 in the report depicts relationship among:
1. Median Worker Age
2. Education Index
3. Number of workers
for each country in year 2010.

But I was looking for
1. Spread in Workers’ Age 2.
Spread in Workers’ Education
3. Number of Workers
for each country, yearly basis.

Now the real question. It is not the exhibit; I am looking for but the way to represent this complex relationship concise manner with least clutter and with minimum number of exhibits.

So here are my thoughts:


This infographic represents

1. Spread in Workers’ Age
2. Spread in Workers’ Education
3. Number of Workers

for each country in a given year.


This infographic depicts relationship among:
1. Spread in Workers’ Education
2. Number of Workers

for each country, yearly basis.

I am sure there are better way to depict complex relationship. If you have one, share with world.

Note: Purpose of this blog entry is to just demonstrate that how to represent complex information/relationships among data point. Not to finding faults with any one. You can download fantastic report from Mackinsey here.

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