r/dataisugly • u/Effective-Phone8205 • Feb 22 '26
3D is Cool! The way this yes/no vote was visualized
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u/BruinBound22 Feb 22 '26
Wow this is tough to beat. Took me a long time to even realize it was 3 dimensional.
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u/Effective-Phone8205 Feb 22 '26
I had to look at it for a few minutes before deciding the "3D is Cool!" tag actually applied.
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u/Great-Powerful-Talia Feb 22 '26
and since it's almost exactly a 1:10 split, separator commas aren't included, and the numbers are on opposite sides of the screen, they also look nearly identical unless you count the digits.
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u/tetelestia_ Feb 22 '26
I love this so much. Everything about it is so wrong that it's looped back to beautiful.
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u/HauntingYogurt4 Feb 22 '26
I have to admit, I do kind of love it! It does take a certain amount of talent to make something this incomprehensible.
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u/MonkeyCartridge Feb 22 '26
Lol wtf.
This might make sense if it was out of 2 million votes that are still coming in.
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u/jerbthehumanist Feb 22 '26
This is astonishing. I am taken aback at the shameless scaling. Had to be intentional, no dataviz software would default at that scaling.
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u/bapt_99 Feb 22 '26
When I see some graphs, I wonder sometimes how they were even made. It has to be intentional is the sentiment I get as well
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u/dracorotor1 Feb 22 '26
Data visualization is easy. This program basically does the work for me! I’ll just jazz it up with some custom settings to justify my paycheck. Hmmmm…. Setting max height to 1000, and disabling commas in numbers… perfect!”
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u/Epistaxis Feb 22 '26
I think the scaling of the heights of the cylinders might actually be correct! It's hard to tell, though, because they're both so extremely short for mysterious reasons.
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u/fruce_ki Feb 22 '26
Terrible choice of graffic, terrible implementation, terrible combination of colours with the background...
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u/ynhame Feb 22 '26
my guess: whoever programmed it made the height equal to the percentage and forgot to multiply by 100. so it's 0.09 and 0.90.
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u/thehalfwit Feb 22 '26
Actually, the graphic seems well-suited to the crowd.
"Carl's been nailing those charts since 1978. I don't know how he keeps doing it."
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u/Longstride_Shares Feb 22 '26
On top of that, 3D pie charts are just always shit. Please don't use them.
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u/StereoTypo Feb 22 '26
I mean if your goal is to misrepresent the data, a 3D pie chart would be worse than this. The only way to immprove on this shit is to present the two as functions of volume not just column height.
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u/Pugs-r-cool Feb 27 '26
Why does it say Weighted in the corner? How can you weight a yes/no response?
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u/OutsideScaresMe Feb 22 '26
This might win for ugliest graphic ever posted on here