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> The interesting pattern: the biggest clusters aren't where the shipping companies are. They're in Panama, Liberia, and the Marshall Islands, the world's large
by NoboruWataya 7mo ago
> The interesting pattern: the biggest clusters aren't where the shipping companies are. They're in Panama, Liberia, and the Marshall Islands, the world's largest open registries.
Genuine question, how is this interesting? Surely it just renders the data useless for assessing anything other than "what are the most popular open ship registries"?
- marcohaber 7mo agoFair point. The dataset only has annual aggregates per vessel, no voyage routes or port calls, so flag state is the only geographic dimension available. The more useful part is the emissions data: CO₂ per vessel, ETS costs per company, and how the fleet changed from 2018 to 2024. The globe is the interface for exploring that.
- captn3m0 7mo agoThere is nothing in the dataset that would require the use of a globe to visualize anything. You could have drawn this as bar charts and it would give us the same information (with the added advantage of not being limited to a few countries at a time). Or even a 2D earth map. It just turns on my CPU fans and gives me no insights.
- marcohaber 7mo agoThat's fair. Thanks for checking it out.