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The death of science in America (www.nytimes.com)

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NASA is also looking at massive science cuts.

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/trump-administration-proposes-slashing-nasa-budget-by-24-percent

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

NYT, wtf is this shite infographic? Just use pie charts, they're so much simpler to parse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pie charts suck too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

True, the bar chart is probably the best, but both pie and bar outperform, by a wide margin, whatever NYT's chart is. With this many categories, I feel a pie chart will handle this info better than a bar chart.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

From a pure functional perspective, probably. Maybe.

Personally, I look at this more as a piece of art, as the chart was most likely picked because the visuals replicate what its describing: Science funding was shattered and is now in pieces.