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Transportation mode, World vs USA (jlai.lu)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Took me a minute to fully parse, I'll try to explain

Each edge of the triangle is 0-100% of each mode, thus the center is 33% of each mode because of the skew in the 'grid'.

Then the thickness/color represents the population, the data just happens to work that there's a strong correlation between population and change in modal percent, making the constant gradients.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This makes sense in principle but none the less I still feel my self struggling to quickly see the difference between to points on these plots.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The graphs on the left convey essencially the same information. It would be a lot more interesting to see where individual nations/cities sit within the ternary graph