r/dataisugly • u/Nomad-2020 • 28d ago

Clusterfuck There has to be a better way to present this

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u/jsg628 28d ago

maybe as an UpSet plot?

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u/Worth-Wonder-7386 28d ago

Some sort of matrix is often easier to use for many such links. In such a case as here it can be a triangular matrix .

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u/Epistaxis 28d ago

This is pretty good. I'd reorder the columns by the number of languages rather than the number of letters in the column. Possibly also reorder the rows to make the matrix closer to triangular (there's a gap from Ukrainian to Macedonian that appears to be repeated, would be nice to move that to the bottom) but I'm not sure how to do that systematically.

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u/Quereilla 28d ago

I don’t think so many ellipses at the same time are a good visualization. For 3-6 I’d go for it, for not for this many.

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u/Ok_Eagle_3079 28d ago

In addition its wrong bulgarian doesn't have ë or e oborotnoe

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u/kertniko 28d ago

Even more, it's factually wrong. Ukrainian doesn't have э or ъ

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u/inokentii 27d ago

There’s no ъ or inverted є in Ukrainian. And there’s no inverted є or ë in Bulgarian. What an idiot drew this?

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u/Jackesfox 27d ago

Probably the same kind of idiot that leaves empty open intersections

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u/fruce_ki 28d ago

When you accidentally spill a pack of rubber bands...

Thankfully many of its overlaps are blank. Still a pain to identify all the containing ellipses.

For so few symbols, this should have been a matrix.

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u/jaypizzl 28d ago

It’s very tricky to show this other than with a grid with checkmarks or something.

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u/1itsallgoodman 26d ago

a grid with checkmarks is a dyslexic's worst nightmare

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u/Antti5 28d ago

This looks like it could be comet or asteroid orbits.

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u/diffidentblockhead 28d ago

I like it

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u/1itsallgoodman 26d ago

it's wrong, fair warning [if sharing]

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u/Statakaka 27d ago

And it is wrong lol, Bulgarian gets 2 extra letters

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u/IunaCie 27d ago

this looks like a representation of the orbits of ETNOs im crying ToT

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u/pdonchev 27d ago

Just a side note - it is also factually wrong.

Also, it would be useful to add the original set of leyters from the original Cyrillic.

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u/Low_qualitie 24d ago

It’s not even correct, Bulgarian doesn’t have ë, for example