𝕨𝕒𝕤𝕒𝕓𝕚 ( @wasabi@feddit.de ) 41•8 months agoWhat a terrible visualization
davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English40•8 months agoEveryone knows data is not beautiful when you visualize scalars using area instead of length.
magic_lobster_party ( @magic_lobster_party@kbin.social ) 14•8 months agoI’m pretty sure it’s by volume, which is even worse
bort ( @bort@feddit.de ) 5•8 months agoI like it. you can visualize sizes with 3 orders of magnitude between them without one being microscopic.
What makes this graph shitty, is that the spheres don’t look very 3D.
Otakat ( @Otakat@reddthat.com ) 6•8 months agoI respectfully disagree. If you want to compare orders of magnitude, you should use a logarithmic scale.
davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English3•8 months agoYeah these are long-ago settled, 101-level, wikipedia-level data visualization principles.
jeffhykin ( @jeffhykin@lemm.ee ) 1•8 months agoWait like 3D volume? 😬 I was looking at it completely wrong
magic_lobster_party ( @magic_lobster_party@kbin.social ) 23•8 months agoA graph of overlapping 3D-spheres? That’s new.
Blackout ( @Blackout@kbin.social ) 10•8 months agoI don’t think they are even to scale either so the artwork is pointless
Izzy ( @IzzyData@lemmy.ml ) 18•8 months agoI get the feeling that having nearly all money in stock markets is not the best idea. I don’t know why that would be the case, but it seems very pyramid scheme like.
Dharma Curious ( @DharmaCurious@startrek.website ) 7•8 months agoNah, it’s cool and normal. What could possibly go wrong? Should anything try to go wrong, the great invisible hand will stop it!
apotheotic(she/they) ( @apotheotic@beehaw.org ) English11•8 months agoIs there a reason they’ve listed bill Gates and larry page? There are people with far far higher net worths, this is such a strange graphic
Goodtoknow ( @Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca ) 6•8 months agoIt’s pretty old, Apple is now worth 2 Trillion
apotheotic(she/they) ( @apotheotic@beehaw.org ) English2•8 months agoWell that’s depressing
usualsuspect191 ( @usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ) 7•8 months agoAre these meant to be spheres? A 2D circle would do much better at getting the point across, or at least cubes. Spheres are quite difficult to judge the volume by eye
Hey man don’t shoot the messenger. I found it on 4chan and it looked cool.
NattyNatty2x4 ( @NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org ) 1•8 months agoSounds like your first problem is you were on 4chan
TWeaK ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) English4•8 months agoI feel like this doesn’t really put anything into perspective except the specific things shown.
Neato ( @Neato@kbin.social ) 8•8 months agoIt seems like it was made to cater to crypto-bros. For or against, I can’t say. But the repeated comparison to bitcoin is weird.
TWeaK ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) English3•8 months agoYeah I mean I expected this to be on /c/bitcoin or something. If it was, I wouldn’t have bothered commenting.
robsuto ( @robsuto@lemmy.ml ) English3•8 months agoProportions seem off. The Bill Gates sphere is not ~1000x smaller than the All Money sphere. Not even close.
WalrusDragonOnABike ( @WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social ) 5•8 months agoBill gates sphere is about 30 pixel radius and the all money is 300 pixels. So there sphere is approximately exactly x1000 small for Bill Gates.
Volume is difficult to judge, especially when its a 2D representation of a 3D object.
robsuto ( @robsuto@lemmy.ml ) English4•8 months agoInteresting. Thanks for counting the pixels.
Just eye-balling, it doesn’t seem 10x larger in diameter.
But yeah, this isn’t ‘beautiful’ data when the initial look is a 2D circle and not a 3D sphere.
jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) 1•8 months agoSo does Bitcoin not count as Crypto for them or is it included in that bubble and then still displayed separately?