Titanic Scrolling D3 Visualisation
A short demo of a scrolling data story using the Kaggle Titanic Data source - SCROLL TO START
HMS Titanic
On the 10th April HMS Titanic started on her journey from Southampton. There were 891* passengers on board.
* There were actually approx. 1317 passengers on board but this is the total in the data.
Passenger Gender
There were more men than women on board.
Passenger Age
Age ranged from 5 months to 80 years but the majority were aged between 15 and 45 years old.
Passenger Class
There was a much larger proportion of passengers in 3rd class but 1st and 2nd class numbers were similar.
Tragedy
Only 342 passengers survived - that's 38%.
Who had the best chances?
Passenger Gender
Women definitely had better odds than men.
Passenger Age
Age isn't so significant but under 15's had the highest survival rate with 15-30s and over 70s had the lowest.
Passenger Class
Passengers in 3rd class had a significantly lower survival rate than those in 1st and 2nd class.
1st and 2nd Class Children
And 1st and 2nd Class children (under 15) had the highest survival rate of them all.
Conclusion
Women and Children travelling in 1st and 2nd class had an amazing 95% of survival.
A long standing myth visually proven - thanks in the most part to the wonderful
Jim Vallandingham. For more info, see my
Medium article.