Data Is Beautiful

translation: There are people conjuring thoughts like "I've seen one too many brown people".

Also unsurprising where the sentiment is coming from:

srcs:

• https://www.ipsos.com/en/perils/perils-perception-prejudice-and-conspiracy-theories-0
• https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/many-people-overestimate-the-percentage-of-immigrants-in-their-country

More imbecility (from the same src):

More dataisdepressing than dataisbeautiful

Never taken one before, but thought this fit here.

Friends don't let friends...

Quite good list of good practices for basic graph charting
https://github.com/cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends
@dataisbeautiful

From here: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/2021.html

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2312726

Tax The Rich EU-Petition Update

We need taxes for all - also the super-rich.

"Tax the rich" is an official EU petition. The EU Parliament has to deal with it when successful.

7 EU countries must reach the quorum Check yours in the chart and share!

The petition calls for the introduction of a wealth tax on very large fortunes. Sign now

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/23749463

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/08/15/a-growing-share-of-us-husbands-and-wives-are-roughly-the-same-age/

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/18098231

Have you ever wondered if your keyboard shortcuts are set up optimally? Well, I did, so I decided to visualize it with a heat-map.

It proved to me that I rely on my left pinky too much, so I'll try to rework my shortcuts.

You can check out the project here, currently it only works on Linux.

Purged voter count data by ZIP (Postal) code from the Ohio Secretary of State's website (https://registrationreadiness.ohiosos.gov/#). Voting age population data is from the 2022 American Community Survey published by the US Census.

▶️ Total olympic medals per 1k $GDP per capita - Paris 2024 - represented in the Tukey's boxplot 🏅

@dataisbeautiful

Is the highest number, relative to $GDP per capita, best? Outliers marked as circles. Made in #LabPlot, an open-source data analysis and visualization software.

Edit: the problem is framed as a question.

#Olympics #Olympics2024 #France #China #NorthKorea #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #UK #Brazil #Australia #Japan #Italy #Canada #Germany #Spain #DataAnalysis #DataViz

You can see the following discussions for more context:

• https://reddthat.com/post/20220167
• https://mander.xyz/post/14378124

Source: https://www.desmog.com/2024/06/12/mapped-tory-network-climate-denial-fossil-fuel-funding/