I'm sorry for ranting in a mildly off-topic fashion, but the visualizations linked in the /. article are just horrible. A jumble of widgets with hardly a caption, and no analysis. They even have those USPTO-style gauges. Data so important deserved much, much better.
And I love the disclaimer:
The information contained in this web site is for entertainment and information purposes only.
You wish, SAP.
Edit. And then, there's this:
United States of America
Total Population: 313,089,333
% of Oceania Population: 90.08%
I was expecting Gapminder to have something useful, but as cool as it is, I couldn't make anything really interesting out of the total world population. http://www.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t;ly... But at least it's less "entertainment" and more straight-up data.
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I'm sorry for ranting in a mildly off-topic fashion, but the visualizations linked in the /. article are just horrible. A jumble of widgets with hardly a caption, and no analysis. They even have those USPTO-style gauges. Data so important deserved much, much better.
And I love the disclaimer:
The information contained in this web site is for entertainment and information purposes only.
You wish, SAP.
Edit. And then, there's this:
—sigh—I was expecting Gapminder to have something useful, but as cool as it is, I couldn't make anything really interesting out of the total world population. http://www.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t;ly... But at least it's less "entertainment" and more straight-up data.
Luckily nobody reads articles on /. anyhow. Submissions like this are probably what led to that sort of culture on the site.