{"id":865,"date":"2017-02-16T23:57:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T23:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/?p=865"},"modified":"2017-02-16T23:57:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T23:57:43","slug":"valentines-day-spending-by-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/2017\/02\/16\/valentines-day-spending-by-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Day spending by Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most loving day of the year was celebrated this week: Valentines Day. The spending on cards,\u00a0overpriced flowers, chocolates, chilling champagne and the fantastically romantic dinner date is done. Lets just\u00a0get a sense of \u00a0how expensive Valentine&#8217;s Day can get. Below visualization depicts the Valentines Day spending by Americans.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karbelmultimedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ValentinesDaySpending2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What I like about this Visualization is<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Color that matches the theme<\/li>\n<li>Precise titles show what we are about to see<\/li>\n<li>Nice description which shows us the\u00a0goal<\/li>\n<li>Donut chart works well here as it&#8217;s only 2 slices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Possible improvements:<\/p>\n<p>But to reach our goal and take proper action, there is very little context. We cannot figure out if this spending is increasing or decreasing as compared to previous years. Historical spending\u2019s might help in getting a proper picture.<\/p>\n<p>As discussed in class regarding grouping the significant attributes which does not have much difference amongst them, we could make\u00a0two groups: significant other and everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Use of bubble charts to compare the sizes of the spending could be replaced by a simple bar graph. It will be easier to read.\u00a0Though the color matches the theme but\u00a0this is a lot of pink.<\/p>\n<p>The data seems incomplete since it only shows spending on gifts but not the other expenses of flowers, chocolates, holiday, dinner etc. which are overpriced during Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>I felt the below link\u00a0depiction of\u00a0Valentine\u2019s Day spending to be better and simple:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nrf.com\/resources\/consumer-data\/valentines-day\">https:\/\/nrf.com\/resources\/consumer-data\/valentines-day<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But overall we can\u00a0say\u00a0that love is not likely to be a cheap thrill on Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.karbelmultimedia.com\/2015\/02\/valentines-day-spending-infographic\/\">http:\/\/www.karbelmultimedia.com\/2015\/02\/valentines-day-spending-infographic\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nrf.com\/media\/press-releases\/cupid-shower-americans-jewelry-candy-this-valentines-day\">https:\/\/nrf.com\/media\/press-releases\/cupid-shower-americans-jewelry-candy-this-valentines-day<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most loving day of the year was celebrated this week: Valentines Day. The spending on cards,\u00a0overpriced flowers, chocolates, chilling champagne and the fantastically romantic dinner date is done. Lets just\u00a0get a sense of \u00a0how expensive Valentine&#8217;s Day can get. Below visualization depicts the Valentines Day spending by Americans.\u00a0 What I like about this Visualization &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/2017\/02\/16\/valentines-day-spending-by-americans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Valentine&#8217;s Day spending by Americans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1883,"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-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":0,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"roopadaga","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/author\/roopadaga\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"The most loving day of the year was celebrated this week: Valentines Day. The spending on cards,\u00a0overpriced flowers, chocolates, chilling champagne and the fantastically romantic dinner date is done. Lets just\u00a0get a sense of \u00a0how expensive Valentine&#8217;s Day can get. 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