At this rate in 2028 they’ll be at -11th
Irish Journalist Excellence
Submitted 10 months ago by UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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nifty@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I like how the position axis starts at 0, maybe that’s for a year they don’t qualify
Ejh3k@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If the article is about how just a few countries are dominating the podiums, I think this is an incredibly effective graph.
wolfpack86@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The values are even incorrect. 2008, they got 63rd. 2024 they got 19th.
dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 10 months ago
…does it not say 63rd for 2008?
wolfpack86@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah it does. I fucked up, they actually placed 64th and not 63rd. Importantly I’m not a reporter.
the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This reminds me of that chart showing gun deaths over a few years that showed the line going down the more deaths there were. That made sense graphically, they colored it in to look like blood dripping down, but this is just dumb.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The Y axis is the absolute number of medals and the labels for each data point are relative rankings. If one country got all the medals except one and Ireland got that one remaining medal, there would be a data point at Y=1 with the label “2nd”.
Trex202@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That thery might work if the data point labels didn’t directly correspond with the Y axis labels.
wolfpack86@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah but it’s not. At all.
They’ve beent taking single digit medals.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
At this rate, at the next Olympics they’ll be in -10.5 place!
fubarx@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
WE’RE NUMBER ZERO! WE’RE NUMBER ZERO!
Photon@feddit.org 10 months ago
Tbh I don’t see where this is bad (except maybe the 0 label). Why should “up” always be “better”? There are countless other examples where this is not the case. Or am I missing something here?
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It measures place, rather than performance (like medals got). It’s a line graph, when there’s no events between the data points, so it should be a bar graph. And yeah, up is better.
friendlymessage@feddit.org 10 months ago
A bar chart for this kind of data makes no sense to me as the bar doesn’t really represent anything. A scatter plot is a good choice and adding a connection line for readability is imo not so bad. It should however be inverted going up to 1 and not down to 0.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Line chart is fine here as it’s the same measure over time.
UnbalancedFox@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
My nose is bleeding 😪
snue@feddit.dk 10 months ago
are their any communities for bad graphs ? :))
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Are there any communities for misuse of their/there/they’re? /lh
Samsy@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Their must be one. Plz create they.
salmoura@lemmy.eco.br 10 months ago
I thought someone would of created it by now.
pyre@lemmy.world 10 months ago
c/dataisugly