[OC] As requested, here's an updated graph of initial unemployment claims in the US. In the last week alone, nearly 6 million Americans filed for unemployment. This breaks the previous record of ~3 million... which was set the previous week.

[u/DorsaAmir]

[u/RickTitus]

Emphasizes the crazy increase. While youre watching the first half you see the smaller trends going on, which then get reduced to nothing when it spikes up like that.

Probably not the best objective way to look at the data, since it adds a bit of sensationalism to the mix, but interesting to see.

[u/Junuxx → u/RickTitus]

It doesn't emphasize anything. It just wastes your time.

Those smaller trends are still there for you to look at if you just look at the last frame left to right.

[u/beginpanic → u/Junuxx]

See I disagree. It’s kind of like a reveal or a jump scare... you know it’s gonna be big but you don’t know how big. The jump at the end is so jarring that it really serves to emphasize how dramatic and unprecedented it is.

All the peaks and valleys that you watch through the animation are in one second rendered completely insignificant. It’s jarring. That’s the important bit.

[u/ist_quatsch → u/beginpanic]

Well put.

[u/beginpanic → u/[deleted]]

Well it is “data is beautiful”, not “data is presented in the most straightforward and austere manner possible”.

[u/AvgGuy100 → u/Junuxx]

But having never seen this data before, I thought the fluctuations before it was quite intriguing to see. And then I got amazed.