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It is one day before the Australian election, and my thoughts on the matter can basically be summed up as: aarrrrgggh. I have a bad feeling about the result, but honestly, who knows?

I bring up the Australian election because it relates to the subject of today's open thread prompt: what is a cool data visualisation that you have seen recently?

Mine is this deep dive into the Australian electoral map, put out by the ABC (the state broadcaster). It does a wonderful job of explaining not only our electoral system (in particular, the fact that, due to having an independent electoral commission responsible for drawing electoral boundaries, each electorate is roughly equal in terms of the number of people, leading to a situation where, like, half of Western Australia is a single electorate, and a tiny 32-square kilometre part of inner-city Sydney is also a single electorate), but also the current state of play, where each party has its weaknesses, and where likely changes of representation are predicted to happen. It's really informative!

What about you? Any similarly cool data visualisation that you've encountered in recent times?

Date: 2022-05-20 08:05 pm (UTC)
chestnut_pod: A close-up photograph of my auburn hair in a French braid (Default)
From: [personal profile] chestnut_pod
Due to the subject matter, I'm not sure I'd call it "cool" - though it is, in a vacuum -- but the NYT's recent weekend interactive article on the COVID death toll in the U.S. had a very effective set of visualizations.

Date: 2022-05-20 11:17 pm (UTC)
laurenthemself: Rainbow rose with words 'love as thou wilt' below in white lettering (Default)
From: [personal profile] laurenthemself
I'm definitely into that reimaging of the electoral map because it puts SO MUCH in perspective. I honestly hadn't thought a heap about the NT and ACT, focused as I have been on tiny shifts of electoral boundaries in my own area, and seeing that they're just these sets of two and three hexes does a lot to put Australia's population centres into context. I mean I was aware to an extent of where they were, but this really drove it home.

Date: 2022-05-24 03:32 pm (UTC)
lirazel: Princess Leia runs through the halls of Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back ([film] someone has to save our skins)
From: [personal profile] lirazel
I'm late for this, but this one about passenger rail in the US weighs on my mind. Like, I knew. Obviously I knew! But just seeing it makes me angry, especially compared to this one from 1890.

(Also somebody reblogged the post talking about this from me and was like, "So y'all just have to take buses everywhere?" And I laughed and laughed because no. No, sweet summer child, we have to take cars everywhere.)
Edited Date: 2022-05-24 03:32 pm (UTC)

Date: 2022-05-26 07:13 pm (UTC)
lirazel: The three Bronte sisters as portrayed in To Walk Invisible looking out over the moor ([tv] three suns)
From: [personal profile] lirazel
I am perpetually angry about us being robbed of trains. Everybody deserves trains!

I assume that person was from Europe or Asia, where functional public transport is assumed to be the norm!

I am so jealous of people who can take if for granted!

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