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I find this really interesting...but can we talk about that opening map? It's something I'm seeing a lot of more recently and wondering if I'm broken or the pe
by axaxs 5y ago
I find this really interesting...but can we talk about that opening map? It's something I'm seeing a lot of more recently and wondering if I'm broken or the people making them are. I don't think of myself as colorblind, but I only see 'red and purple' on the map. Why did they use tiny variations of those two colors to cover 10 different categories? Or can some people clearly differentiate the shades easily?
- SamBam 5y agoOne of my most standard criticisms. It's like people don't spend any time at all researching dataviz color scales. A quick Google search will bring you to Viridis. Use that or one of the many similar versions in other hues. Also: the title of the chart is "Least Religious Countries", but the chart is colored so that the top of the scale is "100% Importance of Religion in Daily Life," i.e. the most religious.
- t0mmyb0y 5y agoYeah the colors are a horrible choice made by a person that doesn't understand color. I have been seeing this since color graphics on computer screens. There are so many differences between their settings and how the screen was built and yours. Colors are very different when light comes through vs when they are opaque, like on a piece of paper. To me this type of thing is the same as all the sites that don't work correctly because nobody uses the same setup as the person that built the site. As for the article, I thought it was as useless as the map.