Sex, politics, and pay gaps in the U.S
Data
data visualisation
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.43.
Design: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, effective design
From 1 comment
Thanks for taking the time to explain. Although I was critical of that aspect I thought the design itself was clean and effective, and you should keep exploring this line of…
anigbrowl on HN
Left/right political lean scales are a good idea
From 1 comment
In addition to the criticisms raised by others (the most important of which is significance!), I'd add that the dots are a poor way to demonstrate the pay gap. People are…
couchand on HN
Objections
No clear correlation between the metrics; visualization doesn't show relationships
From 2 comments
Nice map/presentation, but I fail to see what relationship these metrics are suppose to have with one another. There' doesn't appear to be a strong correlation between them and…
anigbrowl on HNAgreed. The visualization doesn't help to identify whatever correlations there may be.
glifchits on HN
Sex-duration metric seems arbitrary and unexplained
From 1 comment
OK, but what made you pick those three variables to start with? I can see political leaning vs pay gap, because equal pay legislation/administration is a somewhat partisan issue.…
anigbrowl on HN
Pay gap doesn't control for occupation, age or education
From 1 comment
The "pay gap" statistic does not control for occupation, age, or education. What's the purpose of such an apples-to-oranges comparison?
verteu on HN
Dot-area encoding misleads; hard to read and small states hard to click
From 1 comment
In addition to the criticisms raised by others (the most important of which is significance!), I'd add that the dots are a poor way to demonstrate the pay gap. People are…
couchand on HN
Animations distract from interpretation
From 1 comment
Data visualization should be informative and intuitive, at its basest. This is neither, especially with the distracting, unnecessary animations. Data visualization can be well…
minimaxir on HN
Requests
Add text explaining the purpose and message
From 2 comments
What is your purpose in graphing these three metrics at the state level? What are you trying to communicate?
bduerst on HNIn addition to the criticisms raised by others (the most important of which is significance!), I'd add that the dots are a poor way to demonstrate the pay gap. People are…
couchand on HN
Add covariance analysis and best-fit line
From 1 comment
author here. a more rigorous analysis would include a co-variance matrix and a best fit line to quantify the relationships between the variables. on the surface, there doesn't…
akarve on HN
Swap in metrics that have more value
From 1 comment
There's no need to shelve the entire visualization simply because the metrics are not relevant (I hope). It looks like it's built with D3, so it shouldn't be too much effort to…
couchand on HN
Questions
Why these three variables were chosen
From 1 comment
OK, but what made you pick those three variables to start with? I can see political leaning vs pay gap, because equal pay legislation/administration is a somewhat partisan issue.…
anigbrowl on HN
What the visualization is trying to communicate
From 1 comment
What is your purpose in graphing these three metrics at the state level? What are you trying to communicate?
bduerst on HN
Alternatives named
dc.js crossfilter charts
From 1 comment
If anyone is interested in a similar basic crossfilters written in d3, you can check out dc.js - https://github.com/dc-js/dc.js/wiki (edit: i have no relation to the project, but…
tmarthal on HN
Crossfilter and D3 used directly
From 1 comment
You could also simply work with Crossfilter [0] and D3 [1] directly. They're both great libraries, and learning their APIs independently seems more valuable. [0]:…
couchand on HN