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Transportation mode, World vs USA (jlai.lu)

submitted 9 months ago by ElCanut@jlai.lu to c/dataisbeautiful@lemmy.ml

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[–] pseudonym@monyet.cc 44 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Very cool looking graphs but omg I'm having a hard time reading them. I get that it's saying everybody in the US drives and people elsewhere walk and use public transit but... I can't wrap my brain around the figures

[–] ElCanut@jlai.lu 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well this is dataisbeautiful, not dataiseasytoread 🤷

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's not beautiful when it's confusing and badly presented

[–] bbuez@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Do you have a better method in mind?

[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago

We say the data is beautiful, not the way it is presented

[–] readthemessage@lemmy.eco.br 10 points 9 months ago

It is good as a visual representation of the global, but you basically have to read each side of the triangle individually to grasp it well. The middle of the triangle means a perfectly equal distribution and the vertices mean 100% of one of the three characteristics.