Data Visualization Analysis
The Data Team at The Economist released a data visualization illustrating the rising cost of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin in correlation to the number of Google searches for "Bitcoin" from 2013 to 2017. The data visualization itself was released on November 29th, 2017 It took a bit of time understand that the visualization was trying to compare the cost of Bitcoin to the Google search volume from 2013-2017. After I made this discovery, it didn ’t make much sense to me as to why the graph was attempting to make that correlation. The article itself is about the bubble of cryptocurrency. I think this specific graph doesn't pertain well to the article. There is also no clear explanation as to why the Google search volume peaks at 100 or what specific word or words are being googled. To make this visualization less confusing I think the data team at The Economist could have done without the google search volume portion of the graph. Instead, the graph should have il...