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[-] nromdotcom@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago

It is absolutely blowing my mind how many people are looking at this and thinking that is trying to show, like, primary land use per block on the map or something?

Like it's well-known that maple syrup comes exclusively from northwest PA, plus all the logging that happens in downtown San Francisco and LA.

[-] ezmack@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Every single home is in the northeast

[-] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Is this a glorified pie chart? Follow-up question: Why is this not just an actual pie chart?

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

the idea is to show that X land use consumes an area equivalent to an easily recognizable state-area

[-] yuun@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the added context of the US map gives it some utility that a pie chart, which is just straight trash, does not have

a bar graph or even just a table would convey similar information more precisely and usefully, but if your only goal is to give an intuitive sense of the land use (not writing policy or anything here) it suits

[-] N509@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Pie charts are useless in general.

For the example shown here there are way too many categories for a pie chart. You would not be able to see anything past the top 3 or so categories as the slices get too thin and the labels would be all over the place.

Lastly you would miss out on the size comparisons to e.g. states.

This is much better.

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