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data_n_stuff OP t1_iymg1xj wrote

Reply to comment by Esarus in School Shootings in the US 1970-2022 Committed by Students [OC] (interactive version in comment) by data_n_stuff

Sorry man, I appreciate the feedback however I don't agree. If you are making any visualization which is not a "conventional" one like a pie chart or bar chart, it's a good idea to include a "how to read" or some explaining legend as people have different data literacy skills. It's very common even for the best creators in the industry (I'm obviously not in that group) to include a how to read section. With your last point I agree though, there is always room for improvement :)

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swankpoppy t1_iymp58w wrote

I disagree that it is hard to understand. I think it shows the trends really well actually. Maybe kind of complicated, yes, but I was able to digest it pretty quickly.

I do always have a problem with the size of circles being used to illustrate data since the area of a circle goes as a square, or is the diameter (instead of the area) of the circle correlated to the data?

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data_n_stuff OP t1_iymv85l wrote

To my best knowledge tableau is using the area of the circles as the visual variable

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Esarus t1_iymk2gx wrote

Yeah no worries, we can disagree. It's a pretty visualization, just not clear (for me personally!)

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