/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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98

Life's on 🌿

32 Comments
2024/12/12
13:23 UTC

0

I love when there are three different scales to measure the same thing

7 Comments
2024/12/10
15:21 UTC

0

Footnote in the bottom doing some heavy lifting

“These numbers are based on economic projections for a decade from now, which are loose at best”

2 Comments
2024/12/10
06:56 UTC

82

Pie chart: 11 items, 2 colors, no labels

Although, in some fairness, on the source website one can click on a sliver to see the labels, but that still involves a lot of clicking around like a memory game.

6 Comments
2024/12/09
19:47 UTC

37

Formula 1 fastest lap awards for this year

4 Comments
2024/12/09
14:23 UTC

0

Good enough for government work

5 Comments
2024/12/07
21:09 UTC

0

Apparently highest points are meeting zero.

4 Comments
2024/12/07
08:12 UTC

69

Can't make heads or tails of this shit

47 Comments
2024/12/07
07:48 UTC

15

From an official sport news website, changes in the all time Bundesliga table

14 Comments
2024/12/06
12:29 UTC

5

This one showing up in an Reddit Ad

0 Comments
2024/12/05
20:32 UTC

21

This is supposed to be a chart of cyberattacks on aviation. I couldn't even find the data for this in the book its from.

7 Comments
2024/12/05
18:54 UTC

24

My Spotify Wrapped 2020-2024

2 Comments
2024/12/05
15:31 UTC

88

No particular order and apparently "Once a week" is not "More than once a month"

21 Comments
2024/12/05
11:52 UTC

8

This one hurt me.

4 Comments
2024/12/05
01:30 UTC

35

Stay at home mom’s see massive salary increase

16 Comments
2024/12/04
23:37 UTC

0

Chess viewers compared to Fortnite

3 Comments
2024/12/04
22:03 UTC

0

Per Capita Income in Southeast Asia

7 Comments
2024/12/04
21:38 UTC

0

"Medium" is number two out of SIX designations, which range from "low" to "very very very high".

4 Comments
2024/12/04
17:49 UTC

11

How is it possible that Chile is not on this list when its got as many fjords and skerries as Norway?

11 Comments
2024/12/04
16:53 UTC

27

A classic that I just have to share

4 Comments
2024/12/04
16:27 UTC

3

How is it possible that a bar graph can be so incorrectly scaled?

2 Comments
2024/12/04
16:09 UTC

289

Educated Counties in the US

I still don’t know who is educated and not

49 Comments
2024/12/04
06:22 UTC

24

This chart on R&D intensity by country is intense

Someone dropped their colored spaghetti.

3 Comments
2024/12/04
05:00 UTC

11

Participation in course evaluation. 2 classes, 37 total students, met the 75% target for both classes. Have no idea what either axis or the single bar mean.

3 Comments
2024/12/03
20:55 UTC

99

How did it happen?

15 Comments
2024/12/03
11:51 UTC

0

It doesn’t indicate variants or specify altitude, etc. but I thought this chart comparing the top speeds of different WWII fighters was pretty interesting nonetheless

6 Comments
2024/12/03
02:23 UTC

28

Who wanted an accurate Y-axis anyway?

7 Comments
2024/12/02
17:32 UTC

696

good thing we have only one car guys

126 Comments
2024/12/02
16:37 UTC

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