/r/dataisugly

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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.

/r/dataisugly

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195

In "things that didn't happen": Negative number of encounters.

18 Comments
2025/02/02
13:25 UTC

0

I'm sorry but you have to see this

3 Comments
2025/02/02
11:26 UTC

0

Random ass whole number non color coded ratios

12 Comments
2025/02/02
07:16 UTC

61

NYT economic graph. Or is it? (it is)

Am I just stupid, or is this graph unreadable?

23 Comments
2025/02/02
04:21 UTC

8

My sleep data from last night

8 Comments
2025/02/01
23:56 UTC

71

Argentine Provinces by HDI

10 Comments
2025/02/01
21:32 UTC

111

2D visuals for 1D data strikes again

17 Comments
2025/02/01
16:49 UTC

35

humanity before categorical color maps

1 Comment
2025/01/31
23:55 UTC

395

Why is it counting everything twice?

17 Comments
2025/01/31
06:45 UTC

79

AI had nothing to do with this fiasco of a graph

32 Comments
2025/01/31
04:08 UTC

36

My ancap friend sent me this horrible chart

3 Comments
2025/01/30
16:08 UTC

24

Number of babies in Serbia is the lowest in history? While data is true, scales are pretty bad and misleading

16 Comments
2025/01/30
08:51 UTC

0

Still do not understand what this is meant to represent

Posted by @CBSSports on Instagram leading up to the Kansas City Chiefs vs. Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl. The comments are just as confused as I am.

14 Comments
2025/01/30
00:04 UTC

21

City Budget is ugly

3 Comments
2025/01/30
00:03 UTC

44

Very informative Y-axis, thanks USPS

6 Comments
2025/01/29
23:31 UTC

617

How to make a graph meaningless

24 Comments
2025/01/29
20:55 UTC

0

R/fednews called out by e.lon himself on x

6 Comments
2025/01/29
17:54 UTC

276

There is some other sub for this but I forgot the name. Still a bad design😭

32 Comments
2025/01/29
16:16 UTC

0

Does Your Country have better Cities or Natural Beauty (According to My Experience)

16 Comments
2025/01/28
20:03 UTC

11 Comments
2025/01/28
19:42 UTC

1

Is J bringing their famous Big Game Baked Potatoes this year? You can bet my choc covered strawberries will be there!

3 Comments
2025/01/28
14:46 UTC

86

But where's European innovation?

42 Comments
2025/01/28
09:17 UTC

377

Reuters had some... unfortunate... color choices in this chart

17 Comments
2025/01/28
05:58 UTC

2,272

Someone just wanted a fancy graph for no good reason

58 Comments
2025/01/26
23:55 UTC

0

Ignoring the subject matter for a moment...

This makes no visual sense. Why is half the second row missing? It's not clear that the graph is to be read left-to-right. What the HECK is that coloring scheme???

24 Comments
2025/01/26
01:13 UTC

186

Average cost for an acre of vacant land in each state

21 Comments
2025/01/25
20:20 UTC

0

pointless alphabetical order with a side of cringeworthy color-coding

6 Comments
2025/01/25
06:14 UTC

0

Am I crazy in thinking the light blue was water or too American to see Europe

5 Comments
2025/01/24
20:24 UTC

48

363 is 10 time more than 263.

27 Comments
2025/01/24
19:23 UTC

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