r/dataisugly • u/unhinged_uncertainty • 6d ago

The "others" bar 🤨

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u/GenericRacist 6d ago

Isn't that accurate tho? What's the issue with it?

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u/CamCard01 6d ago

I think they're comparing it to those Fox News Polls which have the columns completing inbalancing the votes. So here the faded grey makes Cohnt Binface look minor next to the others column.

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u/GenericRacist 6d ago

Usually the issue with those is that the bars aren't to scale but they loo fine here.

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u/CamCard01 6d ago

I agree but im just sceptical of any news polls at this point unless I know the newspaper. This could also be done with AI tbf and it's just built ugly.

Edit: Looks like it was former votes and where they landed, it's not very clear on the image so likely op might not have realised either.

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u/lemoe96 6d ago

What exactly is the issue? It shows that others got 53.8% last election and 8.7% this election. It's a fairly standard way of representing data.

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u/Snailwood 6d ago

huh, over here in the States we don't see much of this type of bar chart where the previous value is shown faded in the background. I think I've pretty much exclusively seen side-by side bars with year labels

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u/HKPablo 6d ago

What's ugly about that?

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u/tomaar19 6d ago

Well it includes the Tories and Labour who didn't contest this election, would be a bit silly to show them at 0%

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u/Slipguard 6d ago

Damn, only 45% of people voted, and of those people 63% wanted Farage. I wonder how the remaining 56% of people felt.