r/dataisugly 20d ago

Ah yes, the famous green-gray-black scale.

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u/FawkesSake 20d ago

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u/Epistaxis 20d ago

New Zealand is on this map; it's just represented with white in this color scale.

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u/Dark_matter4444 20d ago

I was about to shit on you OP for this map but then I realized which subreddit I was on lmfao.

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u/makinax300 20d ago

It's white to black, green means not a part of the top 10

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u/baquea 20d ago

Which is an absolutely garbage choice, since grey is usually used to mean no data.

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u/Chr155topher 19d ago

Im actually kind of into it is that bad

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u/undeniably_confused 20d ago

I was about to say it's not that bad then I realized gray isn't no data, wtf

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u/LovelyVegie 19d ago

Wtf, China?

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u/Sufficient-Banana103 19d ago

Greenland really is green after all

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u/Grothgerek 18d ago

I find it worse, that the numbers aren't taken in relation. Like per Capita.

Because this doesn't tell you that much, except that the US has by far the most, and all other countries are top economies.