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software used:
Plotly.js Charting Framework, HTML/CSS/JS Stack, Github Pages

Overview:

A data journalism piece examining the disparities between male and female infant mortality in India, overlooked by total infant mortality data. The article attempts to evidence the existence of the disparity - neglect and female infanticide. It then delves into the historical and continuous factors contributing to it, and the effectiveness of measures to prevent female, and predictions on the future state of infant mortality in India. 

Data is a very powerful storytelling tool, and depending on the visualization, different narratives emerge. This project went through several iterations to support the overarching narrative - disparities in Female Infant Mortality in India are major yet invisible.

An earlier version featured the left chart: the disparity of births is shown by India being the only country to have a positive gradient. Attempts where made to increase the salience of India, and make the gradient more pronounced by cropping the Mortality Rate axis. While this chart is aesthetically interesting, it fails to strongly communicate the disparity to other countries and invisibility of female infant mortality. 

The final version on the right: After reframing, I sought to produce two simpler graphs that combined contrast each other - India in the middle of the pack for Under-Five Mortality Rate, but in a field of its own by Sex Ratio of Infant Mortality. The dimension of country population were used to scale the points, allowing India to be salient.

Colour was used to provide continuity, frame discussion and structure the narrative. For the analysis sections, the background colour of deep purple provided a needed association of seriousness, while also staying saliently removed to draw attention to the actual content. This was dramatically contrasted with a cream white treatment for "the solutions" section, the rupture communicating the change of tone and visionary agenda. Secondary colours ranged from Burgundy to Pink, which attached a framing of kindness and consideration about the topic at hand. Extending this, the text is slightly pink shifted to add warmth to the palette. The underlining of key text in Burgundy reinforces a running line motif in the titles, an evolution from previous highlighting solutions.