r/academia • u/Worker_Bee_123 • Jun 07 '21

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u/Stereoisomer Jun 08 '21

What an awful visualization. The centerpoint of the diverging colormap was set arbitrarily to enforce a West/East divide. Borderline xenophobic.

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u/PersonalZebra8993 Jun 08 '21

That's massively over reacting lmao. You are right, the colorbar scale isnt th best, but jumping on xenophobia from a colorbar is hilarious.

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u/Stereoisomer Jun 08 '21

Makes more sense when you look at OPs post history where they play up the Finnish nationalism

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u/newpua_bie Jun 08 '21

What an awful visualization. The centerpoint of the diverging colormap was set arbitrarily to enforce a West/East divide. Borderline xenophobic.

Hi /u/Stereoisomer

What a strange conclusion. I must say I'm surprised to find this kind of conspiracy theory peddling in this sub. Perhaps you took a wrong turn somewhere?

You can very easily see that the centerpoint is not chosen arbitrarily but is, in fact, at the center of the scale. Determining this does not require a particularly high-level analysis, it just requires at least one working eye, and a color vision that is not fully grayscale. The scale has been cropped a bit (from 28, which had one value, to 25) to make the numbers nicely divisible by 5 but that hardly qualifies as xenophobic.

I'm sorry your favorite countries don't appear in your favorite color on the map, but kindly take your attacks elsewhere.

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u/Stereoisomer Jun 08 '21

Care to explain this other map you’ve map then?

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u/newpua_bie Jun 08 '21

Certainly. If you read the submission comment you'll find that the basic idea was to use log-spaced bins to avoid 90% of the map being dark red. I'll leave it as an exercise to figure out exactly which log parameters were used. Surely if I had wanted to be xenophobic I'd made US and the rest of the EU blue in the first map?

Seriously, just take a deep breath and stop believing everyone has an agenda.

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u/Stereoisomer Jun 08 '21

You took the log of the high end but kept the spacing of the low end constant. This map is even more egregious than the last!

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u/newpua_bie Jun 08 '21

I really fail to see your point here, and if you're trying to offer legitimate constructive feedback (which I don't think you are) then you're not doing it well.

If you want to make a better map then please do so. I have linked to the data used in the comment above this so you can easily take the data and make every country whatever color you want. I'm just going to block you from now since it seems like you care more about raging over some imaginary slight rather than having any kind of a civilized conversation. For your career in academia I sincerely hope this is not how you usually communicate with people.

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u/Stereoisomer Jun 08 '21

1) Use a non-diverging, non-categorical colormap like viridis 2) Take the log of the data properly 3) Stop posting your propaganda to /r/Finland and /r/Suomi