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I'm sorry for ranting in a mildly off-topic fashion, but the visualizations linked in the /. article are just horrible. A jumble of widgets with hardly a captio
by andos 15y ago
I'm sorry for ranting in a mildly off-topic fashion, but the visualizations linked in the /. article are just horrible. A jumble of widgets with hardly a caption, and no analysis. They even have those USPTO-style gauges. Data so important deserved much, much better.
And I love the disclaimer:
The information contained in this web site is for entertainment and information purposes only.
You wish, SAP.
Edit. And then, there's this:
United States of America
Total Population: 313,089,333
% of Oceania Population: 90.08%
—sigh—
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- sp332 15y agoI was expecting Gapminder to have something useful, but as cool as it is, I couldn't make anything really interesting out of the total world population. http://www.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t;ly=2003;lb=f;il=t;fs=11;al=30;stl=t;st=t;nsl=t;se=t$wst;tts=C$ts;sp=5.59290322580644;ti=2009$zpv;v=0$inc_x;mmid=XCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj1jiMAkmq1iMg;by=ind$inc_y;mmid=YCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj2tPLxKvvnNPA;by=ind$inc_s;uniValue=8.21;iid=phAwcNAVuyj0XOoBL_n5tAQ;by=ind$inc_c;uniValue=255;gid=CATID0;iid=phAwcNAVuyj2tPLxKvvnNPA;by=grp$map_x;scale=log;dataMin=282;dataMax=119849$map_y;scale=lin;dataMin=19;dataMax=86$map_s;sma=49;smi=2.65$cd;bd=0$inds= http://www.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t;ly... But at least it's less "entertainment" and more straight-up data.
- tikhonj 15y agoLuckily nobody reads articles on /. anyhow. Submissions like this are probably what led to that sort of culture on the site.