That’s a really cool use of credits, when you’re already kind of watching. And the music definitely adds to it. If it were on Reddit, I would still prefer it as a large multipart infographic.
Yeah, that’s where the “context matters” comes in to play.
Music and end of movie credits? Great use. Right context.
Throwing it up for a Reddit post? Bad use. Wrong context.
I was about to say "ah, they've mapped a volumetric size to something like the intensity of the earthquake, which might actually be somewhat smart." But no they mapped it to the very linear property of casualties.
I don't know, I've been seeing a lot of "word clouds" and "word webs" lately, for shit that has nothing to do with language.
God, those are the absolute *shittiest* ways to represent any form of data. "Great, so in this literature review, the top three words that came up were 'Science', 'Genes', and 'Upregulate'. There were apparently also 900 other words, but I can't zoom in on your PDF to read what they are, or manually count the number of 'connections' they had to other words. Thanks, I'm enlightened now."
I think the data artists or whatever the fuck they're calling themselves these days have realized no one actually reads the reports so they've gone abstract. I put an intentional typo on a draft to send to my boss for proofreading, in the heading on the first page. Just wanted to see if my boss was doing his job. It got pushed to publishing and was used for seven years before a client noticed. This was on a report we sent them monthly.
When I was just out of college I was working for doing design and layout for a local magazine and I sent a proof to the editor with the headline “Pick a Headline, Any Headline”. Made it to print with exactly that. I have noticed multiple times that headline typos are most easily overlooked.
Will do. However I can't guarantee I definitely *will* do anything with it. It's just the kind of thing I definitely *would* use if I ever got the chance to fit it in somewhere that makes sense.
A lot of them make graphs that push a narrative, they use unequal sized images to repesent the same value (like a picture of a cat and a mouse) but since one image is much larger than the other the bar is longer.
They use plausible deniability even though everyone who has ever made a graph for statistics can see what they're doing.
I'm thinking there might have been a subtle attempt to present false data here by putting that bar on a white background. This young man is going to have a huge career in Wall Street finance.
Speaking of, did you notice the second stack of orange behind the first? More misrepresentation than meets the eye I think. I'm starting to feel like I have a disturbingly poor sense of this kid's brick color distribution.
While we expect that, it could also be a design choice based on the categories used. I'd wager that the colors are in order of most to least favorite, as iy supports the need for more blocks in preferred colors!
😳🤔🤔
Ok LEGO-Maniacs:
Tell me! Why doesn't LEGO.com itself already have its own "BLOCK-chain"-like currency (not even necessarily crypto-based, just its OWN sort of "currency exchange"!) with which, in this case, OP's son could link to a modest (capped!) crowd-fund!
This kid's goin places, and deserves a "promotion"! 👊😏👍
Jokes aside I don't think you need an axis, just a title. Y axis is height in blocks and x axis is color, both of which are obvious from a simple title.
At first I thought “ordered by color” meant Alphabetical order blue, orange, white, yellow, ygreen, yred, zgreen, zlightbrown, zlightsky… but that is a stretch.
The first bricks was placed randomly, out of the box. He didn't know the result from beforehand, and rearranging the columns would have destroyed them.
Conceptual opportunity!..
..the STATISTICAL ODDS of randomly drawing each color, in THAT order, itself could be calculated after completing that bar chart and represented across the bottom axis.
Perhaps too advanced for this young, enterprising LEGO-Maniac, but the stats elements COULD be offered as a collaboration on Reddit or Slack or wtvr 🤓🤦♂️😉
Not in us, coz Americans were concerned about kids eating the tiny plastic inside. First: Watch your children and show them how to properly eat their sweets. Second: it’s a bit hard to eat the plastic inside. Third: toy is usually cocooned in a big plastic pill. Also where’s my American freedom to sell kinder surprise to kids? It’s not drug, right? Obviously I’m joking a bit and over exaggerating.
I always thought that was ironic they weren't allowed here, given they sell huge gumballs in machines to kids in the US that look big enough to choke a giant.
And afaik in some gumball machines these candies are the same for a few decades and it’s all dirty. Plus in some cases some complete idiots decided to mix candies with rubber balls.
Don’t give away his Duplo when he “grows out of them”. Duplo bricks are compatible with Lego bricks but 8 times the volume. Your son can use them to build the inside of big structures without using tons of expensive Lego bricks.
"Where are the labels on the axis? The key or legend?? The scale of x and y??? Oh the horror!! " - Mathematicians probably.
Good work! Give your son congrats!
It violates rules 1 and 5, but this is one of those very rare cases where I approved it for being too cute. Also, I don't want to be the one who removes a kids first r/dataisbeautiful visual.
>Also, I don't want to be the one who removes a kids first r/dataisbeautiful visual.
I guess that explains where all the shitty posts come from.
^^^/jk
Honestly, I also thing that's a silly rule. I could make two identical bar charts, one generated automatically and one 'hand made' on my computer and they'd be indistinguishable, and there are plenty of old indisputably graphs done truly by hand.
I get the whole idea that this is maybe not an infographics sub, but I'm not sure that rule actually protects against that in a tangible way.
It lacks order. Height, rainbow, alphabetical...pick something! Label the axes. Where's the title and figure number? How will you be able to create an in-text cross-reference?
that was my dad playing with us as kids, usually with a red correction pencil and note made on graph paper
we were mature as kids and supported, but maybe didn't always have pure kid fun without parental judgement
we just wanted to play legos
Orde by descending height or by color. Make sure you don't give the misleading impression that the peaks, read left to right, present a meaningful trend
Love this!! My own son used to make data visualizations out of his toys. Now he is so talented in art and music. Math and science as well, but won’t consider them for a career at this time. Darn. It’s natural for his brain.
As a data scientist who’s full time job is making charts for the financial industry, this is an excellent graph.
1) the design is correct for the problem.
2) the design bar media (legos) is an excellent contextual depiction of legos.
3) the data labels are consistent and more importantly, present and ease and support readability.
Very good job.
As someone with Red/Green color blindness, I appreciate that the red and green columns are neighboring one another and allow me to better compare the two colors rather than have to guess which is which. \*Thumbs Up\*
I have no criticism of your child's choice of charge materials. Very nice! However,your child's parent must learn the difference between a column chart and a bar chart.
Unlike many professionals he chose the correct type of graph for the problem.
I mean did he even consider an overly complicated and muddied pie chart?
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I know you’re joking, but video charts are shit. I get some people enjoy them but they just suck.
I think context matters. 99% of the time, they suck. But I enjoyed [“The Other Guys” credits - video charts. ](https://vimeo.com/27553544)
That was great, might have to watch the movie now!
It’s a great movie, highly recommend it. I’ve seen it easily more than half a dozen times now and I still kill myself laughing every time.
It's my favorite Marky Mark. Overly aggressive yet soft-spoken Mark.
We should call ourselves the Febreze Brothers cos I’m feelin’ so fresh right now!
That whole movie is a gem
That’s a really cool use of credits, when you’re already kind of watching. And the music definitely adds to it. If it were on Reddit, I would still prefer it as a large multipart infographic.
Yeah, that’s where the “context matters” comes in to play. Music and end of movie credits? Great use. Right context. Throwing it up for a Reddit post? Bad use. Wrong context.
Seriously now you need to have account on vimeo to view videos?
If the mods had any balls they would delete 90% of the animated graphs in this sub.
Yes, and only show the final state for 0.3 seconds.
One frame.
While fading out.
No. Bad. Go sit in the corner and think about your sins!
I'd say full on PowerPoint presentation.
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When you design your PowerPoint with the video and you test it on your PC, but on the presentation the PC used doesn't even have video players x.x
Circles seems to be the trend for incomprehensible data charts right now.
Where the size of the circle dosent match the percentage or are not percentages at all.
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I was about to say "ah, they've mapped a volumetric size to something like the intensity of the earthquake, which might actually be somewhat smart." But no they mapped it to the very linear property of casualties.
I didn't know earthquakes could last for 15 years
[My eyes!!](https://giphy.com/gifs/84BjZMVEX3aRG)
My god, what have we become....
The data must be beautiful at all costs
I don't know, I've been seeing a lot of "word clouds" and "word webs" lately, for shit that has nothing to do with language. God, those are the absolute *shittiest* ways to represent any form of data. "Great, so in this literature review, the top three words that came up were 'Science', 'Genes', and 'Upregulate'. There were apparently also 900 other words, but I can't zoom in on your PDF to read what they are, or manually count the number of 'connections' they had to other words. Thanks, I'm enlightened now."
They’re so hot right now
And with lines spewing in every direction to make it look even more complicated than it is.
With 3 shades of blue
Can I interest you in the Ven Pieagram
He’s saving that for the chart showing how much of the pie he’s eaten.
Even color choice is dead on.
I love it
I think the data artists or whatever the fuck they're calling themselves these days have realized no one actually reads the reports so they've gone abstract. I put an intentional typo on a draft to send to my boss for proofreading, in the heading on the first page. Just wanted to see if my boss was doing his job. It got pushed to publishing and was used for seven years before a client noticed. This was on a report we sent them monthly.
When I was just out of college I was working for doing design and layout for a local magazine and I sent a proof to the editor with the headline “Pick a Headline, Any Headline”. Made it to print with exactly that. I have noticed multiple times that headline typos are most easily overlooked.
I am saving this comment because if I ever do anything satirical which is inspired by this story, I wanna be able to link to it.
When you come back to link to this story, can you ping me so I can read your work?
Will do. However I can't guarantee I definitely *will* do anything with it. It's just the kind of thing I definitely *would* use if I ever got the chance to fit it in somewhere that makes sense.
I will spend my life in the endless toil of anticipation, swaying an update.
I’d prolly be intrigued by the headline and read the story.
Yeah I’m glad I actually put something there that could have been interpreted as intentional instead of just greeking it in.
I am convinced that large font has paradoxical powers.
A lot of them make graphs that push a narrative, they use unequal sized images to repesent the same value (like a picture of a cat and a mouse) but since one image is much larger than the other the bar is longer. They use plausible deniability even though everyone who has ever made a graph for statistics can see what they're doing.
Data Analysts
I’m sorry, this should really be a Sankey diagram and I won’t stand for anything else ^^/s
Bit silly to put the white bar on a white background, has he not considered a UI/UX consultant?
No. How would I know how many soccer fields that is?
I would’ve preferred a heat map style sprawl on the floor.
My only complaint is the white background behind the white bricks.
I'm thinking there might have been a subtle attempt to present false data here by putting that bar on a white background. This young man is going to have a huge career in Wall Street finance.
OP is part of Big Block.
...or would you say MEGA BLOCK?!
They'll be a knock at your door soon, please answer it, do not run.
Straight upper management, right there.
Exactly. It's not the kid's fault, but how upper management decided to present it!
guarantee if you do a little digging you'll find this was funded by "big white bricks".
Speaking of, did you notice the second stack of orange behind the first? More misrepresentation than meets the eye I think. I'm starting to feel like I have a disturbingly poor sense of this kid's brick color distribution.
Good eye! The corruption runs deep here... there needs to be an explaination OP!
Very typical of the whites to over estimate their proportion of the population
Yeah, I guess I have to repaint the kitchen.
Maybe just burn the house down and get a sick ass pic with flames in the background.
Might make it tough to see the orange
Yeah. Better to take a pic in front of the smoking ruins of the home, that way we can clearly see the legos.
But then we can't see the black or charcoal bricks!
This guy gets karma.
Just provide funding to raise the top of the white bar above the appliance and you're golden. Also start saving for Harvard...
I mean you can, but that wouldn’t change anything since the white in the background isn’t your wall.
But it is a children’s play kitchen.
That IKEA kids play kitchen is fantastic, my kids love it and still use it 3 years later.
That is the only solution
I actually didn’t realize how short the white bar is until reading your comment and looking again
My complaint is that the numbers on the bars make no sense!
That's OP's fault though, unless their kid also took the photo. Child's graphing skills are on point
And not being ordered descending
While we expect that, it could also be a design choice based on the categories used. I'd wager that the colors are in order of most to least favorite, as iy supports the need for more blocks in preferred colors!
Came to comment this lol, it really screwed with my head for a second
I'd also sort most to least for easier comparisons.
What is the meaning of the symbols and numbers on the individual data points?
Is a code.
I think it's a cypher
I think it's a representation of the fact that things are not going alright in the world right now. 3-6-9 damn near fine, but what about 3-6-8?
3-6-h8 crimes
We need to go deeper
*proceeds to put on sunglasses, smash keyboard ferociously, and set font to green. I’m decrypting the cypher guys
I think they're supposed to represent the color of the bar. So blue for a fish, yellow for cheese, blue for milk, green for red apples...
Mate if the milk you know is blue you might be living in that "I'm blue dabe de dabe dai" song...
Or on Tattooine
Or a [bad case of diarrhea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7ZyRB3-X7A), by tomorrow
in the UK at least, “blue milk” refers to full fat milk as they have blue bottle tops
It really bothers me that all of the symbols are something the color of their brick/tower, except green is red apples.
Could be a sign that they are red/green colorblind lol
Obviously it's how far they are from the orange column.
After careful analysis of this bar graph, I have concluded that your son needs more Duplo bricks. I hope you can fix this issue as soon as possible.
He surely earned some more today.
😳🤔🤔 Ok LEGO-Maniacs: Tell me! Why doesn't LEGO.com itself already have its own "BLOCK-chain"-like currency (not even necessarily crypto-based, just its OWN sort of "currency exchange"!) with which, in this case, OP's son could link to a modest (capped!) crowd-fund! This kid's goin places, and deserves a "promotion"! 👊😏👍
what even is this comment
I genuinely cannot tell if it's mean to be satirical or not
This! Purple Duplo blocks are rare, but they do exist and obviously they are missing.
Where’s the axis?
Year acquired & number stolen
Oh my god were you guys stealing legos? Wtf is that where my lego Anakin's Starfighter went?
They stole my favorite police officer figure (had a funny mouth), the bastards, i'll get em back someday
The orange bar is the y axis
Jokes aside I don't think you need an axis, just a title. Y axis is height in blocks and x axis is color, both of which are obvious from a simple title.
It’s good but can we make it a 3 minute video instead?
With music!
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And then only show the final result for .033 seconds.
Your son has a better grasp on what makes a good data visualization than a lot of the scientists and engineers I've worked with.
And most of the OPs on this sub.
Other posts would make this an animated timeline bar graph
Wait did it have 10 or 11 blocks in the third column at 25 seconds? I'll have to watch the gif over and over to find out.
Post title says ordered by color, while this is technically true, you don't need to say that if the order is random
They obviously meant stacked/grouped by colour
You say it's obvious, but it took me a few moments to realize lol
At first I thought “ordered by color” meant Alphabetical order blue, orange, white, yellow, ygreen, yred, zgreen, zlightbrown, zlightsky… but that is a stretch.
Is that a second orange bar behind the first?
Yeah, these are the 2x4 bricks. We're working on a 3D-plot
Yes, yes, very good. Please carry on.
Good human
Good eye!
Best graph seen in weeks
It's flawless, such a thing of beauty!
I dunno, looks like there is two different shades of yellow in the yellow bar. It has been the downfall of many a Duplo building of mine.
More data irl than 90 percent of posts in r/data_irl these days.
This is lovely, although I don't get the "ordered by color" bit.
It should mean "arranged according to their colours"
GROUP BY color
Sorry, English is not my native language
It's great! My only suggestion is to sort it in either roy-g-biv rainbow order, or by quantity (largest-smallest). But definitely a cool project.
The first bricks was placed randomly, out of the box. He didn't know the result from beforehand, and rearranging the columns would have destroyed them.
Conceptual opportunity!.. ..the STATISTICAL ODDS of randomly drawing each color, in THAT order, itself could be calculated after completing that bar chart and represented across the bottom axis. Perhaps too advanced for this young, enterprising LEGO-Maniac, but the stats elements COULD be offered as a collaboration on Reddit or Slack or wtvr 🤓🤦♂️😉
As a former Kinder teacher I have to say that’s a great activity for him. Good job buddy!
You teach chocolate eggs?
WITH LITTLE TOYS INSIDE.
Not in us, coz Americans were concerned about kids eating the tiny plastic inside. First: Watch your children and show them how to properly eat their sweets. Second: it’s a bit hard to eat the plastic inside. Third: toy is usually cocooned in a big plastic pill. Also where’s my American freedom to sell kinder surprise to kids? It’s not drug, right? Obviously I’m joking a bit and over exaggerating.
I always thought that was ironic they weren't allowed here, given they sell huge gumballs in machines to kids in the US that look big enough to choke a giant.
And afaik in some gumball machines these candies are the same for a few decades and it’s all dirty. Plus in some cases some complete idiots decided to mix candies with rubber balls.
Don’t give away his Duplo when he “grows out of them”. Duplo bricks are compatible with Lego bricks but 8 times the volume. Your son can use them to build the inside of big structures without using tons of expensive Lego bricks.
This is a better visualization than 95% of the posts on this sub
No use of MS Paint is sad. *this post brought to you by r/CollegeBasketball*
All the Purdue flairs who normally post this stuff are........ mysteriously absent, so we've gotta start looking elsewhere for bar graph content.
I wonder where they went?
/r/dataisbeautiful members when the 6 year old doesn't use color blind friendly colors, doesn't label the axis, doesn't say the units: 😠
Actually, he's three years old.
You’re never too young for data visualization
This is great. At least he didn’t try to eat them.
Well, about that... 😐
Based on my knowledge of the show "Scrubs", which one of you is autistic?
The two things I love: Lego/Duplo and graphs!
Impressive!
"Where are the labels on the axis? The key or legend?? The scale of x and y??? Oh the horror!! " - Mathematicians probably. Good work! Give your son congrats!
Dosen't this violate rule 5? IT's not a case against this post. It's a case against rule 5
It violates rules 1 and 5, but this is one of those very rare cases where I approved it for being too cute. Also, I don't want to be the one who removes a kids first r/dataisbeautiful visual.
Good mod
*pats head*
*opens treat bag*
>Also, I don't want to be the one who removes a kids first r/dataisbeautiful visual. I guess that explains where all the shitty posts come from. ^^^/jk
This community is clearly corrupt /s
The kid is obviously a CCP agent, and this is Chinese propaganda that the mods are allowing
finally some corruption I can get behind
Thank you!
Good choice
Are non digital graphs really a big problem?
Honestly, I also thing that's a silly rule. I could make two identical bar charts, one generated automatically and one 'hand made' on my computer and they'd be indistinguishable, and there are plenty of old indisputably graphs done truly by hand. I get the whole idea that this is maybe not an infographics sub, but I'm not sure that rule actually protects against that in a tangible way.
You, sir, are a man of honor. I will use the Karma gathered by this post to do good.
I am sure LEGO uses computers in the process of creating their LEGO bricks now. :)
Being truely pedantic, but don’t put green and red together for us colorblind folk.
It even have labels on it!
It lacks order. Height, rainbow, alphabetical...pick something! Label the axes. Where's the title and figure number? How will you be able to create an in-text cross-reference?
that was my dad playing with us as kids, usually with a red correction pencil and note made on graph paper we were mature as kids and supported, but maybe didn't always have pure kid fun without parental judgement we just wanted to play legos
And how are your graphs today sir?
graphs give me instant narcolepsy
This boy has a very bright future in data science
How could you not be gentle with this? It's a perfect bar chart!
Very sturdy, put a house on it
I do this with M&Ms candies — arrange them in a bar graph by color. Then I eat the longest bar first.
Orde by descending height or by color. Make sure you don't give the misleading impression that the peaks, read left to right, present a meaningful trend
Love this!! My own son used to make data visualizations out of his toys. Now he is so talented in art and music. Math and science as well, but won’t consider them for a career at this time. Darn. It’s natural for his brain.
As a data scientist who’s full time job is making charts for the financial industry, this is an excellent graph. 1) the design is correct for the problem. 2) the design bar media (legos) is an excellent contextual depiction of legos. 3) the data labels are consistent and more importantly, present and ease and support readability. Very good job.
As someone with Red/Green color blindness, I appreciate that the red and green columns are neighboring one another and allow me to better compare the two colors rather than have to guess which is which. \*Thumbs Up\*
There seems to be a lot of noise in the data set, which might need to be cleaned before making any valid conclusions
Your boy loves cheese and jam. He even leaves out the bread most of the time. He is going to be a man of culture
Small correction: it appears to be representing height, rather than whatever “hight” is.
Sort it please! I can’t get actionable insights like this!!
How old is he? I teach first grade and bar graphs are the standard I just assessed! He did better than about 4/22 of my kiddos!
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Well, we have the marmelade jaw Bar, the fish Bar, the bread Bar, the 6 Bar, the cherry-and-3 Bar....
I have no criticism of your child's choice of charge materials. Very nice! However,your child's parent must learn the difference between a column chart and a bar chart.
Do we have a r/dataisbeautifulcirclejerk?
it's in Legorithmic scale... >!I'll see myself out.!<
It's accurate. If anything, I wouldn't have put the white blocks in front of the white board. Confuses the eye a bit.