/r/dataisugly
Where data goes to die.
Welcome to Data Is Ugly, a sub all about butchered visualizations, misleading charts and unlabelled axes. If you've found a particularly useless/ugly/unreadable dataviz or infographic, and struggled to find someone who will listen to your complaints, then rejoice, for you are home!
Submission Rules
0. Obviously this should go without saying, but this is a place for data visualizations.
1. Please do not submit charts and graphics intentionally drawn poorly for the sake of parody. Go to /r/data_irl for that.
2. Submissions must actually have something wrong with the presentation. If it's not apparent what's wrong with your graph, try to explain what's happening—in either the title, post flair, or a comment—so we can all join in.
3. This isn't the place to bitch about the latest OC in /r/dataisbeautiful. (Non-OC by professionals is an exception.) You have the comments section of the /r/dataisbeautiful post for that, go there instead. This is not a space to mock the disabled.
4. Avoid brigading of popular subreddits. It's against Reddiquette and could possibly get us in trouble. CROSSPOST GOOD. BRIGADING BAD.
5. No reposts of popular graphics within 30 days. Check the top 25 posts of the month to see if it's been posted before.
6. Not a requirement, but post titles are encouraged to be as fun and sensationalized as possible.
Commenting Rules
- Don't be intentionally rude, ever. Well, unless the rudeness is directed toward the visual.
- Comments should be related to the visual presented.
- Hate Speech is not tolerated and will result in an immediate ban.
- Moderators reserve discretion when issuing bans for inappropriate comments.
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weird hurricane wind data plot in nyt
what's up with the grid-like data? if no measurement was available they still drew horizontal lines? why the similar slopes up and down all over the place?
23:54 UTC
It took me a while to find their points
11:10 UTC
Per Capita Income (PPP) of Asian countries in 2024
02:21 UTC
The more you analyze it the worse it gets
Was it really that hard to make a good to bad color scheme?
01:02 UTC
Campaign Funding
Received this presidential campaign email, asking for donations. Politics aside this visual made me shudder.
21:08 UTC
Why cant it just be a normal pie chart
17:38 UTC
The government must force you to rent out your spare bedroom, please consult the chart.
15:29 UTC
The striking reality of population collapse. Note, in Europe, Eastern Asia and Latin America most nations have TFRs between 0.90 to 1.50
11:43 UTC
World of Warcraft Mythic Dungeon Spec Ranking
02:05 UTC
A visual of the border crossings
00:12 UTC
Y-axis shenanigans
00:11 UTC
This one made me smile.
23:00 UTC
Distribution of Tunisian voters according to age group
21:47 UTC
Linegraph 101
19:37 UTC
I have no clue what the percentages represent.
Are 12% of all ML algorithms used at Google linear regression? Or am I misreading the chart?
Only 9% of algorithms used at OpenAI are neural networks? Really? You mean OpenAI OpenAI? The company whose main service is an LLM.
How does he know this? No source was provided in the original post on LinkedIn
It really looks like he asked ChatGPT for this information. It just seems very weird
10:51 UTC
Let’s only label two of our four data groups for no reason.
04:49 UTC
Guide for Changing Pet Food Gradually
From Hills Science Diet/Prescription Diet. They include this to demonstrate how to swap from an existing type of pet food to a new type gradually. Am I missing something?
16:33 UTC
Drugs laced spaghettis !
08:09 UTC
It's always bugged me how the standard map of Canada makes the east look much further north than the west. I get that it's done to fit it all in, but most Canadians have a distorted view of their country because of it.
02:50 UTC
[OC] Fentanyl has become the number one cause of overdose deaths in the U.S.
02:40 UTC
Dregs
00:37 UTC
Wow, we almost solved credit card debt??
23:43 UTC
[OC] How Electoral Votes distribution evolved in the past month according to statewide polls
17:03 UTC
A terrible guide about speed
13:52 UTC
This graph from an Al Jazeera article on Trump's deportation plan does not differentiate "other" or "total" from any other category, and the numbers overlap. (Their entire app is a mess as well.)
"How will Trump’s plans to deport undocumented migrants impact US economy?" Andy Hirschfeld, Al Jazeera, 3rd Oct 2024, accessed 3rd Oct 2024, aje.io/lbjba7
It's a shame, really, because I've heard quite great things about them and personally admire their work. But their app is incredibly unsanded and sometimes cumbersome to use.
03:51 UTC
Random ass colors 😭
01:12 UTC
Women's Rights At Denver Int.
00:40 UTC
First MoneyPuck of the season.
05:20 UTC
The biggest non-US fast food chains in Europe
21:17 UTC