Data Is Beautiful

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone knows data is not beautiful when you visualize scalars using area instead of length.

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m pretty sure it’s by volume, which is even worse

[–] bort@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like it. you can visualize sizes with 3 orders of magnitude between them without one being microscopic.

What makes this graph shitty, is that the spheres don't look very 3D.

[–] Otakat@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I respectfully disagree. If you want to compare orders of magnitude, you should use a logarithmic scale.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah these are long-ago settled, 101-level, wikipedia-level data visualization principles.

[–] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Wait like 3D volume? 😬 I was looking at it completely wrong