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It's an interesting layout but has an annoying feature I've noticed in similar infographics. The division looks like it should be proportional to occurrences,
by ska 7y ago
It's an interesting layout but has an annoying feature I've noticed in similar infographics. The division looks like it should be proportional to occurrences, but it is not.
EDIT: appears i was bitten by how I was viewing it originally - downloaded the graphic and it appears to be roughly proportional with areas (i.e. I didn't find more than 10% error)
mea culpa!
- ikawe 7y agoThe chart says “each box area represents the number of deaths...” What makes you think it’s not proportional?
- sokoloff 7y agoDid some quick checks; it does appear that it's area-proportional.
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- lopmotr 7y agoIt would help if the 1990 and 2017 boxes were same-width bars because people are good at estimating relative lengths, but not relative areas. But it would also be uglier and asymmetric, so maybe not worth the trade-off.