Module 2: Making a Geological Map with Tableau

 For this assignment, I went with a dataset containing the record of deaths suffered in the USA from a few different viral diseases from 2020 to 2023. For the purposes of this assignment, however, I chose to stick with deaths caused by pneumonia, a fairly common disease. Setting up the dataset in Tableau, I was greeted with this graph:

The darker the shade of orange on each state, the more deaths that state had recorded in the three years that this data was collected in. Kentucky takes the lead at 751 deaths, with Alaska maintaining the lowest at 310 deaths.

I feel some ways that the graph could be improved include having a small legend at the corner of the screen that lists a couple shades of orange, accompanied by number ranges showing how a certain shade corresponds to a certain estimated number of people who fatally contracted pneumonia. A better color gradient would also be highly beneficial, as the colors here aren't as clashing and intense as one would come to expect from a graph such as this. Lastly, I'd want to try to incorporate the other diseases tracked by the dataset (including coronavirus and influenza) and have all three represented in some way utilizing the same map layout.