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#SWDchallenge Mar 2026 | mapping with purpose
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4 in 10 U.S. counties have no obstetric clinicians and no birthing facilities. Not scattered gaps — contiguous voids across the Great Plains and rural South. Geography makes this story visible.
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https://stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visualizations/SWD%20Challenge/2026/swd_2026_03.html.
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#SWDchallenge Feb 2026
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Grouped bars felt cluttered. Switched to dumbbells. The education gap became instantly clear.
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Lesson: If it feels hard to read, it probably is. Trust your instincts.
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https://stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visualizations/SWD%20Challenge/2026/swd_2026_02.html.
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#SWDchallenge Jan 2026 | plot partial information
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60% started Geralt's journey. Only 22% finished it. Steam achievement data reveals "partial" as behavioral incompleteness—not missing data, but incomplete player journeys.
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https://stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visualizations/SWD%20Challenge/2026/swd_2026_01.html.
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#SWDchallenge Dec 2025 | when less is better
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The race to 500 home runs: McGwire fastest at 1,688 games (PED-linked), Ruth holds the clean record at 1,790.
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https://stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visualizations/SWD%20Challenge/2025/swd_2025_12.html.
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#DataStorytelling📊 SWD Challenge - OCT 2025: Avoiding the Spaghetti Graph
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Directional arrows replace tangled lines. Health surged, Education slipped.
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https://stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visualizations/SWD%20Challenge/2025/swd_2025_10.html.
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#SWDchallenge – SEPTEMBER 2025 | dashboards that deliver
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Transformed a cluttered traffic dashboard from 8 controls + 5 tabs into a focused single-page solution for transport planners.
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https://stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visualizations/SWD%20Challenge/2025/swd_2025_09.html .
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#SWDchallenge JUN 2025 | transform a graph
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From 17x overspend to $1.3M savings 💰
🚨 $47M overspend vs industry
📈 Quadrant supplier analysis
✅ Strategic sourcing solution
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https://stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visualizations/SWD%20Challenge/2025/swd_2025_06.html.
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#SWDchallenge – MAY 2025 | which chart shows it best?
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Strategic chart combo: diverging bars + slope charts = executive-ready insights! 🎯
Result: Clear "celebrate vs intervene" decisions.
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https://stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visualizations/SWD%20Challenge/2025/swd_2025_05%20-%20Ex_058.html.
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#SWDchallenge – MAY 2025 | compare human and machine
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Transformed disaster death data into ridgeline plots revealing hidden patterns across seven decades.
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https://stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visualizations/SWD%20Challenge/2025/swd_2025_05.html.
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#ggplot2Disaster Death Distributions: 1950-2020 – Steven Ponce
This visualization explores the evolving patterns of natural disaster-related deaths from 1950 to 2020 using ridgeline plots. The analysis reveals how mortality distributions have shifted across five major disaster types: drought, flood, earthquake, extreme weather, and extreme temperature.
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