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benji-21 t1_j7jm7yo wrote

It’s an awful tragedy but this doesn’t do a very good job of representing the data.

The stripes condense the information tidily, but goes against the very point you’re trying convey - the extent of life lost.

The way you’ve presented this minimises the loss of life, if anything.

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LikChalko t1_j7jlg9s wrote

The original heart is even better though. Kendrick is this generations greatest poet. Many of us don’t even realize how good at poetry he really is. If you were to ask Edgar Allen Poe to rap on rhythm he would likely struggle. As would Robert frost or Walt Whitman. We often don’t give credit to just how talented the great rappers like Kendrick, cole, or JID really are.

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DataMan62 t1_j7jk4o6 wrote

Good question. I am disappointed in the extreme lack of definition and explanation on almost all the graphs in this group.

But baseline means the average daily ridership. Maybe that’s averaged over the years by month, week, day of week or calendar date. But however the baseline is determined, any given day is almost guaranteed to be at least a little different from the baseline. All of the curves start within 20% of baseline. All but one within 10%. That is normal.

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