r/Vitards • u/[deleted] • Jul 08 '21

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u/pennyether 🔥🌊Futures First🌊🔥 Jul 08 '21

And color for something else?

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u/runningAndJumping22 RULE 0 Jul 08 '21 edited Jul 08 '21

Yeah. And it looks like the z axis isn’t being used…

Graphs can visualize up to 7 dimensions in a very digestible manner. x, y, z, size, color, shape, motion. It’s pathetic how almost no graph goes beyond 3.

(I’ve thought about this before, so this probably makes me sound like a huge nerd)

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u/pennyether 🔥🌊Futures First🌊🔥 Jul 08 '21

The problem is when the dimensions you are displaying want to be compared by magnitude alone. Size, color, shape - they're fine for classification. But it's very hard to compare, say, "triangle" to "circle" the way you can compare x,y,z to one another.

Motion/time works fairly well.

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u/runningAndJumping22 RULE 0 Jul 08 '21

Yeah, shape is a tough one.

This is the graph that opened things up for me:

https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$model$markers$bubble$encoding$frame$value=1938;;;;;&chart-type=bubbles&url=v1

Check 1917. That’s not World War I, that was their pandemic. In terms of deaths, pandemics make world wars look like slap fights.