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Fun idea but as someone from a country that has changed shape and occupation quite a bit last century (we also changed flags quite a bit) I find it a bit low on
by aw3c2 8y ago
Fun idea but as someone from a country that has changed shape and occupation quite a bit last century (we also changed flags quite a bit) I find it a bit low on meat. It is conflating words or names with countries while doing a oh-so typical "let's drop lots of data into algorithms and visualize the result" dataviz for grabbing internet attention.
- aerovistae 8y agoIf you’re going to be dismissive and somewhat pompous, You could at least point out specifics of what you see wrong with this and how you would’ve done it differently or liked to have seen it done differently. At least that way people could engage with you beyond down voting you. Personally I think this visualization is quite neat. Sorry.
- FeteCommuniste 8y agoPutting Russia and the Soviet Union under the same flag is the obvious one.
- imhoguy 8y ago"...Through the Eyes of the US" they mean the same.
- maire 8y agoA lot of times this is done for continuity of the data not for political ignorance. If you look at gapminder.org they use modern countries so that you can track data over time. Gapminder goes back to 1800 before Germany existed - yet they still call it Germany. Gapminder was originally Swedish although it is now owned by Google.
- buboard 8y agomaybe it would be fun as an interactive map of locations instead
- catacombs 8y agoNah. A simple rule in data visualization: If you think it should be a map, chances are it shouldn't be.