My Data Stories (ongoing)

Lavelle Wong
3 min readFeb 26, 2023

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Collections from UQR2215: Developing Meaningful Indicators, UQF2101K: Pursuit of Happiness, and as a Data Reporter for The Daily Tar Heel

  1. Actual nuclear weapons spending in the U.S. vs projected spending vs estimated nuclear stockpiles (Bar and line charts, Tableau; Design, Canva)

2. Average home value in the U.S. vs diversity in home areas (Chloropleth map, ArcGIS)

3. Smoking rates in Europe, mapped (Heat map, ArcGIS; Bar chart, MS Excel)

4. Marvel heroes/villains over time (Line chart, Tableau; Design, Canva)

5. Alliances of those providing aid to Ukraine (Canva)

6. Actual nuclear weapons spending in the U.S. vs estimated nuclear stockpiles (Bar and line charts, Tableau)

7. The ten loneliest countries in the world (Bubble chart, Tableau)

8. Michael Jordan similarity index (Grid, Excel; Design, Canva)

9. High, low, medium homosexuality acceptance rates in Poland by % of population (Line charts, Tableau; Bar chart, Excel)

10. Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations in Orange County, NC, over the past year (Made for The Daily Tar Heel with Datawrapper)

11. Dean turnover in UNC-Chapel Hill over the past 20 years (Made for The Daily Tar Heel with Datawrapper)

12. Lead levels in Chapel Hill-Carrboro preschools (Made for The Daily Tar Heel with Datawrapper)

13. North Carolina state house and state senate candidates’ views on abortion (Interactive dashboard, Tableau)

14. Fentanyl overdose rates in North Carolina infographic (Made for The Daily Tar Heel with Flourish and Adobe Illustrator)

15. What my Chinese mother says vs. what she means (Sankey diagram, Google Developers)

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