Covid-19's impact in Economics books: a data visualization


Another part of my project Covid-19's impact in Economic Books was a data visualization using Tableau, in order to identify patterns, trends and outliers in the dataset. 

For me, one of the biggest advantages of using this practice of translating information into a visual format, through a map or a graph, is that it makes data easier to be understandable for the human brain and, as a consequence, to pull insights from it. 

At the same time, someone without knowledge of this business nor a technical background in what respects to business intelligence/data analysis/data science tools, could easily understand what is at the stake essentially with shapes and colors, carefully chosen.


In this case, I decided to use data visualization to compare the specific subject of economic books before and during Covid-19, the nationality of authors, the gender of them, the publishers, the country of publishers.


Which are the conclusions, according to the data?  


  • Without pandemic, development is the specific subject more used, but during pandemic the authors have also books with technology, resources and pandemic as specific subjects.

  • The nationalities of authors with books sold by amazon.co.uk are British or American.

  • Usually, more men than women publish books.

  • Development, technology and resources seems to be specific subjects worked by men. However, when the subject is the pandemic, there is no difference between gender. 

  • Most of the books have been Independently Published. 

  • The USA, UK and Germany are the countries where are the Publishers of economic books.


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You can see my Tableau for this project here:
https://public.tableau.com/profile/marisa.fernandes#!/vizhome/Project5-MyOwnProject/BeforeandduringCOVID19

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