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A place to share and discuss visual representations of data: Graphs, charts, maps, etc.

DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information. Aesthetics are an important part of information visualization, but pretty pictures are not the sole aim of this subreddit.

A place to share and discuss visual representations of data: Graphs, charts, maps, etc.

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Data source: Self-collected dataset of unprompted comments by other people about my dog while going on walks with him.

Tools: R+ggplot for exploratory data analysis and visualization.

This is my original work, and I have directly linked to my original blog post instead of making an image submission because I believe that the context of the post is important.

I am posting this on a Monday because I consider this post to contain Personal Data.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by 14th_cylon@lemm.ee to c/dataisbeautiful@lemmy.world
 
 

Just randomly found in comments on imgur, might be old, but i think it is an example of actually beautiful data representation...

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It's been trending this way for years, but seeing it graphed out like this is shocking.

What do you think are the effects of this drastic change?

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Looks like there's some lying going on, lol

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Link to website: https://whatif.sonycsl.it/15mincity/index.php

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13859498

Related paper

I'll note that in the US, their urban area definition includes a lot of outlying and substantially unpopulated areas which fall within county boundaries; these areas tend to show up as having long travel times to services.

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FICO Scores In the US (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by kersploosh@sh.itjust.works to c/dataisbeautiful@lemmy.world
 
 

The image is from a Washington Post article which took the data from an interesting research paper titled Who Pays For Your Rewards? Redistribution in the Credit Card Market.

The research paper is a good read. (A free PDF of the whole paper is available at the link.) It examines how the use of rewards credit cards results in a massive wealth transfer from low-credit-score customers to high-credit-score customers:

We estimate an aggregate annual redistribution of $15 billion from less to more educated, poorer to richer, and high to low minority areas, widening existing disparities.

The Washington Post article attempts to frame the clear north-south split as a result of healthcare issues in the south. That explanation seems too narrow to me. This map looks too similar to maps of poverty and education, and we know health correlates strongly with both of those issues.

Edit to fix a sentence fragment. Sorry; it was late and I was tired.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by kersploosh@sh.itjust.works to c/dataisbeautiful@lemmy.world
 
 

Best of luck to Mozilla. Their line on the chart may end soon if they lose funding from Google.

Source: https://eylenburg.github.io/browser_engines.htm

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Stolen from Reddit.

The big drop in the 1970's was supposedly due to a change in the program to de-emphasize outdoor activities. The step down in 2019 was the LDS church cutting ties and starting their own program.

If you consider this as a proportion of the population it's an even bigger drop. In 1970 there were about 4.8M scouts in a population of 205M, so about 2.3% of all Americans were in Boy Scouts. Now it's 1M scouts in a population of 341M, so only 0.3% of Americans are in Boy Scouts.

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