▲ 451 ▼ What is wrong with some of you? (lemmy.world) submitted 3 years ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world [M] to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 99 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Limeey@lemmy.world 24 points 3 years ago (2 children) This is a terrific example of where a choropleth (Ideally by county) would have been much more effective than a heat map. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 years ago Fuck yeah let's convert some sunlight to .. oh you said.. nevermind permalink fedilink source parent [–] lolgcat@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 years ago* (1 child) It's worth noting that the Times released this tool a decade ago. IIRC, around 2015 there was also a push for better colorblind friendly color palettes, especially on the heat map space (I remember watching a matplotlib demo, maybe, with viridis support). While there's many visualization practices we do better at now, and while this could be due for a redux, I still think it"s one of the best interactives to date. It's an OG for sure. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Limeey@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago That's fun, and it's a much better use of heatmap since it's just a binary scale (least-most similar). When we're showing discrete options rather than a continuous "similarity" we don't want to use heatmaps because they cause undesirable blurring. Really what the OP is trying to do is show which areas use which phrases. A heatmap could have been used where we have multiple visualizations - one for each phrase - using "Popularity" to show smooth distribution. I assume that the source data is not by county level and instead aggregated so the choropleth never would have worked great. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 years ago Fuck yeah let's convert some sunlight to .. oh you said.. nevermind permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lolgcat@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 years ago* (1 child) It's worth noting that the Times released this tool a decade ago. IIRC, around 2015 there was also a push for better colorblind friendly color palettes, especially on the heat map space (I remember watching a matplotlib demo, maybe, with viridis support). While there's many visualization practices we do better at now, and while this could be due for a redux, I still think it"s one of the best interactives to date. It's an OG for sure. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Limeey@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago That's fun, and it's a much better use of heatmap since it's just a binary scale (least-most similar). When we're showing discrete options rather than a continuous "similarity" we don't want to use heatmaps because they cause undesirable blurring. Really what the OP is trying to do is show which areas use which phrases. A heatmap could have been used where we have multiple visualizations - one for each phrase - using "Popularity" to show smooth distribution. I assume that the source data is not by county level and instead aggregated so the choropleth never would have worked great. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Limeey@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago That's fun, and it's a much better use of heatmap since it's just a binary scale (least-most similar). When we're showing discrete options rather than a continuous "similarity" we don't want to use heatmaps because they cause undesirable blurring. Really what the OP is trying to do is show which areas use which phrases. A heatmap could have been used where we have multiple visualizations - one for each phrase - using "Popularity" to show smooth distribution. I assume that the source data is not by county level and instead aggregated so the choropleth never would have worked great. permalink fedilink source parent
