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Blue laws, sex work, marijuana cigarettes, motor vehicle laws, excessive parking tickets, Blockbuster video late fees. This guy gets it alright. You don't get a prison population like this unless you're enforcing arbitrary laws which mean nothing about safety.

Most incarcerated country on the planet, both in totality and in proportion. Now that's freedom defined by america 🇺🇸

We also have outrageously high electric rates. And over the last year they just keep rising with the PUC not seeming to care. I live alone in a small house. I work a lot and I’m away from home quite a bit. And even then I run a light and my television while I’m awake. my bill for last month is $90.

U do the crime u do the time

Its not the impoverished consuming the most resources.

+4C Fire Age gunna be litt.

Hi all, i am doing a report ranking public transport affordability in Europe, and wondering if people have interesting suggestions to represent it

of course i think i will make a chloropleth map - the scores range from 0-100. Most countries score less than 20, with another 10 or so clustered between 40 and 70, 3-4 higher ones and one country scoring 100
Any suggestion for a) a color scheme that will work across such a wide range?
and b) any more interesting ways to represent the data you can think of?

We also have capital city data too in case that's interesting

Thank you!

Oh? Did you come up with a good reason?

Same situation in coastal Florida. Especially where I am, in the panhandle. The economy in the northern part of our state is cut off from the peninsula. It’s rural and has very little industry. I bet many States are like this: even in CA, agriculture is the business in the interior, rural areas. Prices at the coast are one thing, but local people are effectively being priced out all over.

Once again, the pandemania and excessively low Fed rates are showing their harmful results.

Some of the data doesn't add up? The bottom map shows the US leading the world with 629 inmates per 100k nationwide, but the middle-left map shows the highest number per 100k in each state is 584. How can the nationwide average be higher than the highest state average? Or am I missing something?

It was just kinda lying around Lake Superior, not much digging or smelting required to get ahold of 99% pure copper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Copper_complex

There's still a bunch of copper mines in the UP of Michigan

Or something pulled out of the shower drain.

Someone probably said the same shit about shooting neutrons at uranium. You never know what you're gonna find.

There’s never been a lack of cheap houses in the US, the problem is they aren’t in places people want to live ......

Reference: Toledo Ohio.

That says more about you than about the research.

yeah I felt the same way, and similarly about this - this chart itself feels concise, straightforward, understandable and also interesting. coolio

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The vertical index lines are too faint to be useful in the majority of the middle. It would help to have them be wider and brighter.

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Idaho lawmakers are probably a big reason for their drop. Plus Californians who moved there realizing winters aren’t what they’re cracked up to be

For more on this topic, see any book by Edward Tufte.

Well, I think they forgot the tally sheet and the invention of numbers themselves! One sheep, one line scratched on the clay tablet. That got tiresome. Let's invent a shorthand for "more than one" of a thing.

Terrific job with attribution on the image! (In case you haven't been here this month, I'm kinda big on this.) What I particularly like is that you note the different years for data being used on each chart, which is a detail that is frequently omitted in this sub. (Although it appears you forgot to do this for the map at the bottom of prisoners/100k; it's not a huge deal because that stat is widely published, and the rest of the charts are dated; no visualization or other work gets everything perfect without multiple reviews anyway.)

The graphical layout seems more appealing to me than I'd expect. Normally I'd be put off by such a monochromatic color scheme, but since all your charts are displaying raw or scaled N with color (Except the top right, which doesn't do the gradient), it's actually an appropriate use. It looks aesthetically well-balanced taken from a distance, which is impressive for having 6 charts in there.

I do think the text is excessive however. Descriptions in plain-size font can be fine and great. (That is long as your users are reasonably expected to be able to read it -- so a visualization like this would be have a modified form if put into a slideshow, say, probably by separating each chart onto individual slides and reducing/summarizing the side text as full-size bullet points.) However, I think your descriptions are unnecessarily lengthened with your own interpretations of the data that may not be clearly demonstrated within the visualization alone, especially the introductory text. What you state affirmatively on the visualization should be reasonably supported by what is presented, and of course, since it's a visualization, you want a maximum of "show, don't tell". (There are several arguments you make that can only be supported by a detailed analysis going far beyond the charts given here; if you really feel the need to reference one or two of those arguments it would be more authoritative if you write something like "... and this is likely caused by such-and-such [Smith & Payne 2015]", or a numerical superscript, with additional source cited in the corner (a shorthand citation is fine for this kind of thing).)

Hope this can be useful. Very nice job overall.

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