“Home was not a safe haven”
Intimate partner violence against women
Intimate partner violence is one of the most common forms of violence against women and includes physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and controlling behaviors by an intimate partner.
We decided to explore the factors that have an impact on domestic violence against women per country and searching for the impact of Human Development Index parameters on domestic violence in particular.
During our brainstorm design session, we focused mainly on what kind of data representation would be the most interesting: A map? Bubbles? Tree with root causes? We draw many scatches that could be potentially the easiest and most exciting to look at when we are talking about what actually can be related to domestic violence against women. How to tell the story? How do we make readers curious?
The number of variables we have as a baseline is over 80 and in order to make the most of what we have we structured our information into 6 categories:
General Indices
Education
Social Norms
Economic Power
Political Participation
Violence
After generating raw material, all group members reunited and uploaded their sketches to Miro. A discussion took place during which we merged our ideas together based on shared characteristics of the sketches. This merging process resulted in three groups of sketches that shared common themes: Gender Inequality, Domestic Violence vs Various Socioeconomic Factors, and Ideas on Visualization. We then moved on to the next session, taking apart the ideas that we want to explore further.
We narrowed down the list of topic themes of possible visualizations as well as the general design concepts: namely including a map, roots visual, and a donut chart visual that we definitely wanted to include in our final product. Once we had completed these steps, there was a natural progression to drafting the general organization of the blog post.
Here we present only the most interesting charts we agreed on, however, if you are interested to see more of our brainstorm creative session please go to our miro board for more details.
Natalia Eremeeva — Monika Helak — Meseret Assefa — Daniel R. Yildirim