/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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38

One 47% is just better than the other 47%

18 Comments
2024/11/02
15:30 UTC

7

Seats and % on the same scale

2 Comments
2024/11/02
07:33 UTC

22

Captain Obvious's Map Legend

1 Comment
2024/11/02
01:43 UTC

0

Terrible

2 Comments
2024/11/01
20:42 UTC

0

This sizing chart directs me to measure length from two undistinguished points and measure width between two other undistinguished points.

5 Comments
2024/11/01
19:28 UTC

85

Absolutely vile pie chart crime

8 Comments
2024/11/01
16:16 UTC

2

Which Balkan states are in NATO?

4 Comments
2024/11/01
16:09 UTC

8

This is certainly a way to sort data

14 Comments
2024/11/01
14:59 UTC

99

Found on LinkedIn

10 Comments
2024/11/01
00:51 UTC

35

Bethesda Games Studios team size from Skyrim - Starfield

3 Comments
2024/10/31
15:20 UTC

323

Solid choice of background color here

2 Comments
2024/10/31
11:55 UTC

43

How do germs get onto my hands?

8 Comments
2024/10/31
04:24 UTC

28

Am I the only one who thinks this map is weird? (From USGS)

34 Comments
2024/10/31
01:34 UTC

0

Misleading presentation from Apple

Apple presents the M4 Pro’s performance as “3x faster” than the M1 Pro when it should be “2x faster”, according to the bar in the figure

15 Comments
2024/10/30
18:29 UTC

22

Kalamazoo County Race

0 Comments
2024/10/30
17:30 UTC

146

Twitter weirdo posts weird chart

60 Comments
2024/10/30
00:11 UTC

264

Apple conveniently forgot their last processor

55 Comments
2024/10/29
16:34 UTC

76

CDC SOS

9 Comments
2024/10/29
14:39 UTC

0

when you need log scale your x-axis to show "improvement"

2 Comments
2024/10/29
13:31 UTC

0

VOTE or the olds win!

5 Comments
2024/10/28
13:50 UTC

13

The observation is the killing feature here

First some context. This last Sunday (Oct 27) Brazil had its second turn of municipal elections, and we have some good number of parties (29) to choose from.

Now for some translation:

Title: 2024 municipal election results (Winner party by city)

Observation: To facilitate visualization, remaining parties are shown in gray.

My eyes hurt so much I wish I ways colorblind and didn't need to see this crayon diarrhea.

1 Comment
2024/10/28
12:08 UTC

222

This graph by CityNews Ottawa to make it look like homicides are going up

9 Comments
2024/10/28
11:18 UTC

21

Why is it not a regular map? Why are the colors not proportional? So many questions.

11 Comments
2024/10/27
22:25 UTC

582

A list would have been better

31 Comments
2024/10/27
12:15 UTC

350

Two Y axis — I got tricked

33 Comments
2024/10/27
09:11 UTC

26

Thought yall would like this one. How hot is it going to be this weekend?

2 Comments
2024/10/27
02:18 UTC

5,568

Front page of the most widely-read newspaper in the United States today

725 Comments
2024/10/27
01:05 UTC

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