Literacy Scores by Country

Literacy Scores by Country is an interactive infographic showing Reading, Math, and Science scores from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). Visit Flowing Data to interact with the graphic.

Among 15-year-old students, here’s how 77 countries compare in reading, math, and science. Higher scores are better.

These scores are from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). I kind of expected countries that excelled in one subject to be not as good in the other subject, but that wasn’t the case at all. If a country clusters around a certain score in reading, then they’re in the same range in the other subjects.

Note: B-S-J-Z stands for Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. PISA assessed different regions in China separately.

I love how this combines a Jitter Plot with a Parallel Coordinates Plot to create a new custom data visualization!

Found on: FlowingData