Description:
This visualization was part of a Forbes article- Why Paternity Leave Is Just For The Rich. It is relatively a simple visualization which attempts to show the number of paid paternity leaves across different countries with USA being in center. And noticeably, there are no paid leaves granted to new fathers in the US.
It can be called variant of a pie chart with slice sizes being indicative of the number of leaves; more the leave duration, bigger is the slice size.
Critique:
Things going well:
- Clarity: With country names and leave duration clearly mentioned, the visualization is quite clear in conveying the information it intends to.
Things not going too well:
- Consistency: It misses out on consistency with respect to following aspects:
- Leave duration: Some leave duration are in months, some in weeks and the rest in days.
- Country representation: The purpose of putting US in the center of the graph and all other countries around it is unclear. Does it mean that the US provide no paid paternity leaves?
- Color scheme: It could have been per country instead of duration. UK, Denmark, Australia, Venezuela, and Kenya seem like part of one country.
- Completeness: There is no mention as to why only these specific countries are present, this makes the information seem incomplete.
Redesign: