Recreating a area chart
March 26, 2025This week I recreated a area chart from De Tijd on the trade deficit and import tariffs of the Donald Trump administration. Olaf Verhaeghe, Raphael Cockx and Thomas Roelens participated in its creation.
Warning: Data may be inaccurate compared to the source.Recreation
Highlights
Another area for the challenge and the first recreation of a Belgian newspaper. Among the goals of this challenge, was to explore more newspapers that create visualizations outside of the ones I already knew.
- It was a fun recreation. It's the first time I have done an area chart of this style: inverted or negative? I wouldn't know the right way to call it.
- To replicate the data I did something new for the first time. I used the same database as the previous area chart, which, by chance, gave a similar shape, the difference being the values. I defined the minimum and maximum values and scaled the numbers. The result: A 439,534 was transformed into 142.