Likert Scales

Project for a university department.

Likert scales are a staple survey tool, but conventionally visualized as boring, ugly side-by-side or stacked bar charts. A university department approached me with a challenge: they wanted to publish the result of their annual climate survey in a visually appealing, aesthetically congruent format. The department also requested that their Likert visualizations would preserve the detail of the data while still allowing for
at-a-glance analysis.

Inspiration:
Recently, I have been experimenting with tessellations and repeating patterns. I was inspired by the shape of the repetition in a visualization by Federica Fragapane that I found in this article.

Visualization Variations

splitTry1.png
A revision attempting to display male vs female response in each category
splitTry3.png
A revision attempting to display male vs female response in each category. This revision scales the bulbs to represent the percentage of respondents
splitTry5.png
Experimenting with various color scales. Because the order of the bubbles consistently represents each Likert scale value, the color scale is doubly encoded and the visualization is still accessible to color-blind populations
Experimenting with various color scales. Because the order of the bubbles consistently represents each Likert scale value, the color scale is doubly encoded and the visualization is still accessible to color-blind populations
colorTry3.png

Customizable & interactive version

The same department came to me the following year (2021) to ask for a visualization of their latest climate survey data.

Instead of altering my 2020 visualization by hand, I created a program to do so using d3.js.
Check it out here :))

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