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   Danielle Navarro (djnavarro@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 07:38:19 JST Danielle Navarro

   New York Times coming in hot with a contender for the least-asked-for data visualisation of all time

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     kpfssport (kpfssport@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 07:38:17 JST kpfssport

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     • Chris Gioran 💔

     @djnavarro @chrisg I was going to ask, is it the usual thing of the US press not liking it when they're not first (see also the switch in metrics depending on how well China do)

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     Danielle Navarro (djnavarro@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 07:38:18 JST Danielle Navarro

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     • Chris Gioran 💔

     @chrisg ikr???? like, (a) the basic premise is batshit insane: the entire world except the US is in the top right corner, the US is in the bottom left corner, and every other point in the grid is stupid, (b) the heatmap is ugly and hard to parse, and (c) literally nobody cares

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     Danielle Navarro (djnavarro@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 07:38:18 JST Danielle Navarro

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     • Chris Gioran 💔

     @chrisg Okay I guess if you’re Australian you could make a case for the x=2, y=1.5 point because that’s the 3-2-1 Brownlow medal scoring rule but like come on. No one has ever used that in the Olympics. Someone in the NYT data vis team is bored and is trolling management

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     Chris Gioran 💔 (chrisg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 07:38:19 JST Chris Gioran 💔

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     @djnavarro Looking at this, it's hard to believe that NYT once was at the cutting edge of data visualization.