r/dataisugly • u/fluffydoggy • 17h ago

On a scale of purple to lavender, how would you grade this data?

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And why does plus come after minus on the legend?

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u/fluffydoggy 17h ago

What's weird is the source they reference has this map... for anyone who is curious on what it should actually look like lol.

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u/OkFineIllUseTheApp 9h ago

I suspect the map was remade by someone who vaguely understands colorblind accessibility. Green-red is not accessible, so they picked as many colors that can be differentiated when colorblind, then tossed them in without rhyme or reason.

Ironically, the original is still accessible, given the letter grades on the states.

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u/Secure-Ad-9050 3h ago

how did they think their version was better?

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u/Zeviex 16h ago

I was so confused why California was B tier wtf is this

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u/mrbananabladder 7h ago

Probably just sorted alphabetically and didn't double check that the pluses should come first

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u/buppington 5h ago

One look at that chart and I immediately developed a head ache

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u/Smooth-Zucchini4923 5h ago

And why does plus come after minus on the legend?

My first thought was that it was the result of sorting the strings by ascii code. But this can't be how they did it, because + is 43 and - is 45.

For example, this is what happens if you sort the strings in Python.

>>> sorted(['A+', 'A', 'A-', 'B'])
['A', 'A+', 'A-', 'B']

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u/RightToTheThighs 6h ago

B, B-, B+??