Data I Guess

All hail the labrador!

A few week back the theme of MakeoverMonday was top 10 chocolate bars. When scouting how to represent this the best I found someone who had made a bump chart over America’s kennel club most popular breeds - since I am a dog person I got curious: how does it look in Sweden?.

ftwd

Turns out: we all love the Labrador, but in Sweden we apparently also love hunting! (yes dog people, don’t be alarmed - I know the Labrador is part of hunting too, but they fetch). The largest fall from popularity is the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, starting at rank 8 and rank 16 in 2018 - hm?! For me, the most unexpected popularity journey is made by the Bichon Havanais (it’s a small fluffy dog)

It also saddens me that the breeds with short noses still are so popular here, I hope a change in breeding will make Pugs, French bulldogs and other similar dogs able to breed.

Workflow for the visualization
  • I searched SKK for their yearly dog breed popularity data
  • gathered it, cleaned it and grouped it :)
  • then visualization time!

Ps. My dog isn’t even on the list! How is that possible??