{"id":1136,"date":"2017-03-03T01:11:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T01:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2017-03-03T01:11:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T01:11:26","slug":"the-top-100-defense-contractors-in-the-us-by-country-and-the-money-us-pays-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/2017\/03\/03\/the-top-100-defense-contractors-in-the-us-by-country-and-the-money-us-pays-them\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top 100 Defense Contractors in the US by Country and the Money US Pays them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You can find the data visualization here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/dataisbeautiful\/comments\/5wzqtw\/since_were_looking_at_defense_spending_heres_the\/\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/dataisbeautiful\/comments\/5wzqtw\/since_were_looking_at_defense_spending_heres_the\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Audience: Anyone is interested in How many companies are helping the US defense<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Purpose: In the data list, the audience can only see the rank, and sort each column by clicking headers. Using charts or graphs to visualize confusing data is easier than poring over spreadsheets or reports. In this case, the visualization can easily show which company contribute the US defense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Advantage: Audience can easily see which country has the most companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Disadvantage:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The audience can read only about 50% of the company names on here. Need a better way to label.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I know the color code represents the country. However, in the right bottom corner, it is a little confusing for the audience to extinguish the difference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Some possible solutions: <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I will switch the color code from country to continent, it will be easier for the audience to group them. Also. it will give extra information about US\u2019s relationship among those countries. Also, put some company details in the graph will be good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Reference:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/people.defensenews.com\/top-100\/\">http:\/\/people.defensenews.com\/top-100\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can find the data visualization here: https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/dataisbeautiful\/comments\/5wzqtw\/since_were_looking_at_defense_spending_heres_the\/ Audience: Anyone is interested in How many companies are helping the US defense Purpose: In the data list, the audience can only see the rank, and sort each column by clicking headers. Using charts or graphs to visualize confusing data is easier than poring over spreadsheets or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/2017\/03\/03\/the-top-100-defense-contractors-in-the-us-by-country-and-the-money-us-pays-them\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Top 100 Defense Contractors in the US by Country and the Money US Pays them<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1847,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":0,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"jxia","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/author\/jxia\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"You can find the data visualization here: https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/dataisbeautiful\/comments\/5wzqtw\/since_were_looking_at_defense_spending_heres_the\/ Audience: Anyone is interested in How many companies are helping the US defense Purpose: In the data list, the audience can only see the rank, and sort each column by clicking headers. 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