I know I keep raving about donuts on this blog, but as a native New Yorker, I also love pizza. (Maybe circular foods speak to me.)
My first completed Makeover Monday was 2020/W13 Does pineapple belong on a pizza?
This was the original visualization:
Although this delicious visualization makes me hungry, it’s weird that the percentages in this pizza pie chart do not add up to a whole. Therefore, I recreated it in this way:
I kept the title and changed the subtitle to serve as a color legend. I wanted to have a pizza pie chart (that appropriately displays a part-to-whole relationship). Thus, I grouped the toppings based on pizza types, such as Meat Lover’s and Seafood Supreme. I also wanted to differentiate between male and female pizza topping preferences and opted for a butterfly chart.
In retrospect, it is a little inconvenient to compare male and female pizza topping preferences in a butterfly chart. A bar-in-bar chart or a side-by-side bar chart may be more effective for easy comparison.
More recently, I saw another Makeover Monday with pizza data, 2023/W5: NYC Pizza Slices.
This was the original visualization:
These visualizations are suitable but I wanted to incorporate more interactivity between the elements and display the distribution of pizza slice prices in a histogram. Without further ado, here is my recreation:
I kept the elements of the original visualization because the line graph and map works; the former shows the slowly increasing price of a pizza slice and the latter displays the various pizzeria locations in this dataset. For interactivity, I included the ability to filter the pizzerias in the map by price range and the ability to access the corresponding Instagram post for each pizzeria in the map.
As intended, I added a histogram. Furthermore, underneath each bar or price range is a pizza pie chart that segregates the slices by type - plain cheese or not plain. Unsurprisingly, most of the cheaper pizza slices are plain cheese. On the other hand, the most expensive slice is a (ridiculously overpriced) pepperoni slice from Artichoke Basille’s in Times Square - yikes.
Initially I had this dashboard on one taller page, but I did not like how that looked. I decided to divide the dashboard into two pages and imagined pizza slice “arrows” to navigate between the two pages.
Unfortunately, the navigation buttons above did not appear when the dashboard was published on Tableau Public. As a result, I simplified the buttons to what they are now.
I am not sure if there will be more Makeover Monday challenges featuring pizza data in the future, but I will continue to complete Makeover Monday challenges of interest!