bickster Posted March 22, 2021 Moderator Share Posted March 22, 2021 Just now, HanoiVillan said: This. And also, there's nothing stopping him adding a key. Yes, that too, I was trying to work out where his transitions were and again it seems a tad random Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TB Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 @bickster: Yes, I agree that the colour scheme you describe is what you describe is more common and more intuitive, and probably what I would have used myself if I ever create a similar map. But I just think he was going by the traffic light scheme (which I believe is generally frowned upon in web design) - green: good, red: bad, yellow: somewhere inbetween. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 22, 2021 Moderator Share Posted March 22, 2021 Just now, TB said: @bickster: Yes, I agree that the colour scheme you describe is what you describe is more common and more intuitive, and probably what I would have used myself if I ever create a similar map. But I just think he was going by the traffic light scheme (which I believe is generally frowned upon in web design) - green: good, red: bad, yellow: somewhere inbetween. The problem with that is that it seemingly makes a judgement on the data, where low instances here are bad and high instances are good. I'm not sure this type of data should have that inbulit bias. He also shys away from blue completely because he's added the water in a colour, wheras blue should be the logical bottom of such a scale, colouring the sea is somewhat pointlessly beautifying the map 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TB Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 (edited) He could have chosen some other scheme (I became curious and looked up his site). I like these two: I think those colour schemes make more sense And @HanoiVillan: In the second map, he actually explains the colours used. Edit: Duh. On the actual webpage: https://jakubmarian.com/water-in-european-languages/ Edited March 22, 2021 by limpid fixed embed 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 22, 2021 Moderator Share Posted March 22, 2021 30 minutes ago, TB said: He could have chosen some other scheme (I became curious and looked up his site). I like these two: I think those colour schemes make more sense And @HanoiVillan: In the second map, he actually explains the colours used. Yes both those are much better 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TB Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 16 minutes ago, bickster said: The problem with that is that it seemingly makes a judgement on the data, where low instances here are bad and high instances are good. I'm not sure this type of data should have that inbulit bias. He also shys away from blue completely because he's added the water in a colour, wheras blue should be the logical bottom of such a scale, colouring the sea is somewhat pointlessly beautifying the map Oh, I completely agree, common geographical-type colour schemes (hues of blue below sea level - hues of green/yellow/orange/brown above) or a temperature-type colour scheme from cold blue to hot red is non-jugdemental - just stating the facts. As I said, I believe using the traffic light scheme is generally frowned upon in web design, unless you absolutely must deliver a Yes!/No! message, both due to accessability reasons and to the risk of suggesting some kind of bias. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BOF Posted April 12, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 12, 2021 On 10/04/2021 at 20:59, Genie said: Fun fact. On average, Venus is not our closest neighbour, Mercury is. Even funner fact. On average, Mercury is every planet in our solar system's closest neighbour. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MessiWillSignForVilla Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 6 minutes ago, BOF said: Fun fact. On average, Venus is not our closest neighbour, Mercury is. Even funner fact. On average, Mercury is every planet in our solar system's closest neighbour. There's a CGP Grey Video on YouTube that explains it pretty well. It makes sense when you think about it though. On average the closest body in the Solar System for each planet will be the Sun, as it doesn't move relative to the planets whilst other planets will spend time on the other side of the Sun, so it stands to reason that the closest planet to each planet, is the closest planet to the Sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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KenjiOgiwara Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 On 14/03/2021 at 10:47, bickster said: I really want to see one of those and Batman. Will tell you quite a bit of our challenged neighbours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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