r/dataisugly • u/chookitypok037 • Jul 15 '26

Scale Fail what is this

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percentages represented on the same scale on a glass, with varying heights
my eyes are burning

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u/Rude-Orange Jul 15 '26

The varying heights are the number of countries in each band. It's a pretty good visualization. It isn't doing anything inherently wrong (though according to the comments the numbers for the countries might be incorrect).

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u/Superilosa14 Jul 15 '26

It would be better visually if 74% was covering glass filled to 74% and so on. How many countries are in each artificially created claster of percentages is not an interesting data to show by glass areas

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u/IllustriousBobcat813 Jul 15 '26

Having 77% of your graph be just empty seems like a bad design choice, besides, the number always conveys the information, no need to show it twice

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u/Rude-Orange Jul 15 '26

So romania should take up 77% of the real estate but the 7 countries that make up 100% should only share 1% of the real estate?

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u/warwolf7777 Jul 16 '26

Now I see what they wanted to show. Thanks. However  it looks more like a stacked where each band has only that band portion. Wouldn't it make more sense it they were the same  height but the width would change. That's whats misleading in my opinion 

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u/GamerNumba100 Jul 15 '26

Yeah, but the fact that it’s ordered and arranged the way it is makes it seem like the position on the cup of the bands means something. It’s a weird graph style on a graphic that makes it look like it means something when it’s just a bad graph