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Is it me or the visualization is very hard to follow? E.g. if you highlight the 'Dancers and Choreographers' section, it's not at all clear that more female da
by solutionyogi 11y ago
Is it me or the visualization is very hard to follow?
E.g. if you highlight the 'Dancers and Choreographers' section, it's not at all clear that more female dancers marry male welders.
- nilkn 11y agoOf all the lines starting at 'Dancers and Choreographers' which are initially red, the thickest one is by far the one that is blue at the other end and ends at 'Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Workers'. I think that's the intended way of drawing that conclusion from the graph. Overall I'm satisfied with the visualization itself, but it would be nice to have more sorting options.
- joehilton 11y agoThis is one of the interesting connections on the chart. My theory (being an ex-welder as well as a dancer) is that both of these are strongly one-gender dominated professions - almost all my welding friends were male and almost all my dancing friends were female (in three different states no less). And for the majority of marriages up to this point in largely heterosexual historical data, you don't meet many people of the opposite gender to marry in your regular day. The one exception is when set workers (male welders) are around a stage all day where the performers (female dancers) are doing the show. So you get these relatively few places to meet a potential mate that turn up in funny combos.
- neves 11y agoha! You are the guy who introduced all these female dancers to the male welders!
- erroneousfunk 11y agoOr perhaps they were just inspired by Flashdance?
- uremog 11y agoThank you, I was wondering why this was such a thick line.
- douche 11y agoDepending on the definition of dancer, this could be less surprising.
- Grishnakh 11y agoSo how are software developers supposed to meet women?
- caf 11y agoTake up dancing?
- taneq 11y agoDancers are more likely to be girly girls and welders are more likely to be blokey blokes, making the two more likely to be compatible?
- hamhamed 11y agoYeah, def not my cup of UX tea
- tommoor 11y agoYou're not wrong, this is incredibly hard to parse.
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- tommoor 11y agoAs far as I can tell most groups seem to marry Elementary school teachers
- 4684499 11y agoThis
- Spooky23 11y agoI think that's a class thing. Auditors, teachers and RNs are all solid middle class, female heavy gigs. Teachers and RNs have the added bonus of an awesome schedule.
- iends 11y agoAll the RNs I know have terrible schedules where they work 12 hour days 4 days in a row with three off, or something similar. Plus lots of on call time.
- mikeyouse 11y agoThe standard RN schedule is 12-hr shifts, but 3 days on and 4 off.. So they work 36-hours per week. Often times they can build their own schedules, so they can work something like, Th - F - S - S - M - W then have a week off without PTO. On-Call is typically voluntary, but typically pays very well past 36-hrs per week. My wife's a nurse and it's an amazing schedule if you like to travel. Especially in California since they are actually well compensated for their time, and can afford to do so. Your mileage may vary by state though, we came to California from Michigan where they treated nurses like shit and it was extremely dangerous for patients too (1 ICU nurse taking care of upwards 5 or 6 critically ill patients etc.) but the schedule was pretty much the same.
- escape_goat 11y agoIt's not entirely you, but I think that the fundamental problem is less with the visualization than with shortcomings of the implementation. With regards to the implementation, I have trouble reading the unselected text. With regards to the visualization itself, the switchboard-style network view is really neat, and the line coloration idea was clever, but thickness of lines is really hard to infer proportional information from. There really needs to be supplementary information appearing dynamically alongside the grid.
- TaylorGood 11y agoIt's rather hard to take seriously..
- TheBeardKing 11y agoThere also seems to a disproportionate amount of male-male lines, weighted just as heavily as male-female lines. I don't think gay marriage is that prevalent to show up with equal weighting, but my cursory googling didn't turn up the number of gay couples in the US.
- henrikschroder 11y agoFTFA: "Same-sex occupation/relationship matchups weren’t common enough to reach the top five in any occupation. So the chart also highlights the top male-male and female-female job matchups for each occupation."