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Platystemon posted:It’s the most plausible evidence for astrology I’ve ever seen, not that that’s saying much. Lol there's a very popular denier argument about solar cycles that was literally created by an astrologer, who has since put out papers saying "sure I was wrong before but the major minimum is the next one" 3 loving times.
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Nenonen posted:Thank you, that matches. It's amusing how much it looks like a Nazi swastika when scaled down enough. I know there is a British Leyland joke buried here somewhere. Besides "someone actually bought one willingly". Der Kyhe has a new favorite as of 16:47 on Oct 6, 2019 |
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Wow. The best one yet, as it accurately classifies my political beliefs.
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they still managed to sneak in a libertarian sex-pest reference 
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the fedora is hardly snuck in, my dude
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the night vision goggles 
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Lutha Mahtin posted:the night vision goggles NVG is a prepper reference?
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It's a good illustration of how 2008 hosed up everything. 
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Ah, the Jeremy Bearimy timeline style
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Sereri posted:Ah, the Jeremy Bearimy timeline style this is what you learn in class after Jeremy speaks
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ahh yes, "Official Interest Rate," every economist's favorite market indicator
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As terrible as this chart is at actually representing information, the whole dramatic turnaround where the line just starts marching backwards does at least remind me of the old fun graph of Napoleon's invasion of Russia: 
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I see the really strong relationship between these two variables over time...
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The Cheshire Cat posted:As terrible as this chart is at actually representing information, the whole dramatic turnaround where the line just starts marching backwards does at least remind me of the old fun graph of Napoleon's invasion of Russia: This is literally one of my favourite graphs ever.
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the researchers i work with have a soft spot for connected scatterplots like that but i always wonder if small multiples or something would be better. it just takes me so long to parse things out, even if there's better visual encoding of directionality than in the example shown
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My favourite part of many is how the note at the bottom says that the last two months weren't available so they extrapolated instead of just ending where the data ended. They then proceed to extrapolate it in a way that doesn't look like anything else in the history of the data points. Extrapolation successful!
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TinTower posted:This is literally one of my favourite graphs ever. that graph was taught to me in school as one of the best ones ever. i believe it. a fun fact about it is that the guy who designed it made it because he was anti-war, and wanted to have an easy way to show people how much Napoleon's wars were costing in terms of human life
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Tree Goat posted:the researchers i work with have a soft spot for connected scatterplots like that but i always wonder if small multiples or something would be better. it just takes me so long to parse things out, even if there's better visual encoding of directionality than in the example shown The way most people think about economic policy, you'd like to be in the bottom right of that graph because you have low unemployment AND you have the most dry powder if a recession hits. Right now we have decent unemployment (debatable but, regardless of metric, it's decent relative to recent history) but if things turn south the Fed is going to be firing spitballs.... Also, real low interest rates can inflate bubbles as capital piles into other asset classes, so you might be increasing the chance that things turn south. The major macro variable omitted, that historically economists were obsessed with, was inflation (and in no small part because the rich people and lenders paying their salaries cared the most about it, and could argue for austerity crying about it) but that's been real low for the duration. Okay I'll stop now.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:that graph was taught to me in school as one of the best ones ever. i believe it. a fun fact about it is that the guy who designed it made it because he was anti-war, and wanted to have an easy way to show people how much Napoleon's wars were costing in terms of human life I can totally believe that, I always thought it was a deeply disturbing image
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Have you people seen the new Youtube channel Data is Beautiful? They have some nice animated graphs. https://youtube.com/channel/UCkWbqlDAyJh2n8DN5X6NZyg/videos Just an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTPCU9I0CKA
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Phlegmish posted:I can totally believe that, I always thought it was a deeply disturbing image There's a radio program here called 'In Our Time' (it's really good, you should check it out) and they just did an episode on Napoleon in Moscow, the numbers are astounding. Napoleon won a battle losing only 15000 men dead and injured. He then went back to Paris and raised more armies on the back of some fake news.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Have you people seen the new Youtube channel Data is Beautiful? Though that reminded me of that older channel with the same concept, and their experiment at creating the literal opposite of data visualization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vux1Ztp88Fk
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Lutha Mahtin posted:that graph was taught to me in school as one of the best ones ever. i believe it. a fun fact about it is that the guy who designed it made it because he was anti-war, and wanted to have an easy way to show people how much Napoleon's wars were costing in terms of human life Yeah, I find the fetishization of Napoleon as some great revolutionary hero pretty disturbing, given the millions (?) of people who died in his wars.
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https://twitter.com/ActuallyFinance/status/1184814836263329794 (yes definitely a crime)
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pangstrom posted:https://twitter.com/ActuallyFinance/status/1184814836263329794 The source is linked in a reply, and... I, uh... what?  I have no words to describe that first big round whatever-it-is. Just the way they put percentages of income and percentages of people on the same scale would be enough to make this a terrible graph, but there's so much else going on that makes it one for the hall of fame.
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Powered Descent posted:The source is linked in a reply, and... I, uh... what? Is there a rule in the infographics world that a type of graph can only be used once? So even if a straightforward bar graph is the best choice for multiple items, the have to come up with a circular layout, or a misused pie chart instead to keep things exciting?
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the gently caress is that last thing where 10% is just under half as tall as 60%
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Well, they're doing it by area, which normally is better... it's at the end of a brain-breaking chart where everything up to there is by height/length (I think?) though so yeah it's a mess.
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pangstrom posted:Well, they're doing it by area, which normally is better... nooooo
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yeah, it is see how misleading this is, for example https://visual.ly/community/infographic/environment/worst-oil-spills-history edit: to be clear, I mean IF you are going to make shapes that aren't just bars of fixed width (where area scales with length anyway), then you should map the values onto the area of the shapes pangstrom has a new favorite as of 19:01 on Oct 17, 2019 |
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pangstrom posted:yeah, it is People tend to be really awful at understanding and comparing the area of circles, though.
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