/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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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?

0 Comments
2024/10/08
23:54 UTC

6

It took me a while to find their points

1 Comment
2024/10/08
11:10 UTC

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Per Capita Income (PPP) of Asian countries in 2024

0 Comments
2024/10/08
02:21 UTC

37

The more you analyze it the worse it gets

Was it really that hard to make a good to bad color scheme?

10 Comments
2024/10/08
01:02 UTC

44

Campaign Funding

Received this presidential campaign email, asking for donations. Politics aside this visual made me shudder.

9 Comments
2024/10/07
21:08 UTC

45

Why cant it just be a normal pie chart

9 Comments
2024/10/07
17:38 UTC

782

The government must force you to rent out your spare bedroom, please consult the chart.

43 Comments
2024/10/07
15:29 UTC

15

The striking reality of population collapse. Note, in Europe, Eastern Asia and Latin America most nations have TFRs between 0.90 to 1.50

10 Comments
2024/10/07
11:43 UTC

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World of Warcraft Mythic Dungeon Spec Ranking

1 Comment
2024/10/07
02:05 UTC

0

A visual of the border crossings

10 Comments
2024/10/07
00:12 UTC

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Y-axis shenanigans

12 Comments
2024/10/07
00:11 UTC

201

This one made me smile.

18 Comments
2024/10/06
23:00 UTC

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Distribution of Tunisian voters according to age group

7 Comments
2024/10/06
21:47 UTC

1,113

Linegraph 101

63 Comments
2024/10/06
19:37 UTC

7

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

12 Comments
2024/10/06
10:51 UTC

75

Let’s only label two of our four data groups for no reason.

12 Comments
2024/10/06
04:49 UTC

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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?

52 Comments
2024/10/05
16:33 UTC

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Drugs laced spaghettis !

4 Comments
2024/10/05
08:09 UTC

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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.

3 Comments
2024/10/05
02:50 UTC

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[OC] Fentanyl has become the number one cause of overdose deaths in the U.S.

8 Comments
2024/10/05
02:40 UTC

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Dregs

6 Comments
2024/10/05
00:37 UTC

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Wow, we almost solved credit card debt??

5 Comments
2024/10/04
23:43 UTC

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[OC] How Electoral Votes distribution evolved in the past month according to statewide polls

34 Comments
2024/10/04
17:03 UTC

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A terrible guide about speed

26 Comments
2024/10/04
13:52 UTC

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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.

7 Comments
2024/10/04
03:51 UTC

7

Random ass colors 😭

1 Comment
2024/10/04
01:12 UTC

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Women's Rights At Denver Int.

4 Comments
2024/10/04
00:40 UTC

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First MoneyPuck of the season.

2 Comments
2024/10/03
05:20 UTC

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The biggest non-US fast food chains in Europe

18 Comments
2024/10/02
21:17 UTC

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