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F1r3Fly4life t1_iufn5fq wrote

Sweet, another bar chart. Since when did “Data is beautiful” resort to displaying 3D bar charts? I have spent WEEKS making data beautiful and then somehow this gets hits…

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zeronic t1_iug3gw9 wrote

Well there are two warring factions in the sub. Make the data too pretty and the people will just say "why couldn't this just be a line chart?" but if you make it too boring people will say "how is this beautiful?" hilariously you can't win either way.

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RoastedRhino t1_iuh81nf wrote

I disagree, you are kind of suggesting that making a pie chart or a bar chart 3D makes it beautiful. Maybe we should define what beautiful means. There are definitely examples where the representation of the data highlights some additional information, pattern, or interpretation, that would otherwise be missed. This is what makes a data representation beautiful.

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Mnm0602 t1_iui5pxe wrote

Death taxes and comments complaining about how the data isn’t actually beautiful.

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glmory t1_iug4zew wrote

If a bar chart is the clearest way to show data, use it. This subreddit is as much to showcase interesting data as elaborate visualisation of that data.

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RoastedRhino t1_iuh8c8e wrote

But in this case it clearly isn't. A bar of percentage growth in 45 years is exactly as informative as writing in the title "CEO salary increased 15 times in the last 45 years, US stock market grew 10 times in the same period".

Even the use of percentages when the percentage is of the order of 1500 is a very lazy choice. With two decimal points........

So many questions unanswered: when the stock market fell, did the CEO salaries fell as well? Are some sectors leading the increase? Are companies getting bigger, so that a larger salary per CEO capita could correspond to a somehow constant top-management expenditure across the board? What was inflation in the same period?

All these questions could have been answered via minimal modifications of the chart.

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F1r3Fly4life t1_iughkwb wrote

And those are for meeting rooms, not r/dataisbeautiful

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F1r3Fly4life t1_iui5o9a wrote

Yep, we are going backwards…soon people will be passing off ggplot with praise…or worse yet….excel. In all honesty I love excel still…but like everyone else I have discovered software that makes my vizzy waaaaaay better

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