this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
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[–] SeaOtter@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Interesting data, but I don’t think it is beautifully presented. Bar charts, or maybe a blown up pie charts may be easier to grasp the scale.

Blobs of the largely same color, dispersed in a random pattern make it hard to quickly see scale

[–] BlackRose@slrpnk.net -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The beautiful presentation was chosen to underline a message.

[–] ianis@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

which would have been a lot more clear in a bar chart

[–] BlackRose@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's like yesterdays post https://lemmy.ml/post/2352771 with a map of the US. The circle could represent earth.

[–] conductor@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

This one wasn’t very good either.

[–] notapantsday@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

I'm sure this has zero side effects...

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is good, but presenting the blobs as such different shapes makes it harder to get a sense of relative size. (Obviously some of the differences are huge enough it doesn't matter, but comparing humans and cattle say.)

And which blob is chickens? I guess chickens are so much smaller and lighter than other domestic animals they don't show very big here.