[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":228},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-8161322":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":5,"line_source":6,"title":7,"url":8,"domain":9,"maker":10,"posted_at":11,"year":12,"points":13,"comments":14,"rank_in_year":15,"shown_in_year":16,"top":17,"tier":18,"category":19,"subcategory":20,"format":21,"keywords":22,"reception":27,"sentiment":28,"stance_mix":29,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":38,"post_text":41,"what":42,"said":65,"maker_in_thread":157,"shape":164,"grid":167,"attempts":191,"same_week":192,"maker_shows":31,"maker_hidden":220,"reader_version":221,"card":222},"8161322","Sex, politics, and pay gaps in the U.S","title","Show HN: Sex, politics, and pay gaps in the U.S","http:\u002F\u002Fwww.visualmagnetic.com\u002Fhtml\u002Fsex-politics-income\u002F","visualmagnetic.com","akarve",1407717296,2014,17,14,1346,2272,60,"shown","data","data visualisation","web_app",[23,24,25,26],"data visualization","pay gap","d3","state map","roasted",-0.433,{"positive":30,"neutral":31,"mixed":32,"critical":33},1,2,0,4,7,{"idea":36,"design":37},{"positive":32,"critical":31},{"positive":30,"critical":31},[30,32,32,39,32,40,32,30,32,39,30,30,32,32],3,5,null,{"problem":43,"audience":41,"pricing":41,"motivation":50,"time_to_build":41,"stack":54,"openness":63,"stage":64,"team_size":63},{"value":44,"source":45,"evidence":46},"Explores whether income inequality, politics and sex lives correlate across US states.","maker",[47],{"id":48,"by":10,"text":49},"8162023","i saw nerve.com's data on intercourse duration and started to wonder which variables might cause or correlate with the same. of greatest interest to me at the time: how does…",{"value":51,"source":45,"evidence":52},"Wanted to see how inequality and politics affect sex lives, after seeing nerve.com intercourse data.",[53],{"id":48,"by":10,"text":49},[55],{"value":56,"source":57,"evidence":58},"D3","commenter",[59],{"id":60,"by":61,"text":62},"8161920","couchand","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…","unknown","launched",{"praise":66,"objections":80,"requests":115,"questions":134,"alternatives":143},[67,74],{"value":68,"source":57,"evidence":69},"Clean, effective design",[70],{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},"8162063","anigbrowl","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…",{"value":75,"source":57,"evidence":76},"Left\u002Fright political lean scales are a good idea",[77],{"id":78,"by":61,"text":79},"8161903","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…",[81,91,97,104,108],{"value":82,"source":57,"evidence":83},"No clear correlation between the metrics; visualization doesn't show relationships",[84,87],{"id":85,"by":72,"text":86},"8161370","Nice map\u002Fpresentation, 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…",{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},"8161392","glifchits","Agreed. The visualization doesn't help to identify whatever correlations there may be.",{"value":92,"source":57,"evidence":93},"Sex-duration metric seems arbitrary and unexplained",[94],{"id":95,"by":72,"text":96},"8161684","OK, but what made you pick those three variables to start with? I can see political leaning vs pay gap, because equal pay legislation\u002Fadministration is a somewhat partisan issue.…",{"value":98,"source":57,"evidence":99},"Pay gap doesn't control for occupation, age or education",[100],{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"8161533","verteu","The \"pay gap\" statistic does not control for occupation, age, or education. What's the purpose of such an apples-to-oranges comparison?",{"value":105,"source":57,"evidence":106},"Dot-area encoding misleads; hard to read and small states hard to click",[107],{"id":78,"by":61,"text":79},{"value":109,"source":57,"evidence":110},"Animations distract from interpretation",[111],{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"8161431","minimaxir","Data visualization should be informative and intuitive, at its basest. This is neither, especially with the distracting, unnecessary animations. Data visualization can be well…",[116,124,130],{"value":117,"source":57,"evidence":118},"Add text explaining the purpose and message",[119,123],{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"8161649","bduerst","What is your purpose in graphing these three metrics at the state level? What are you trying to communicate?",{"id":78,"by":61,"text":79},{"value":125,"source":45,"evidence":126},"Add covariance analysis and best-fit line",[127],{"id":128,"by":10,"text":129},"8161440","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…",{"value":131,"source":57,"evidence":132},"Swap in metrics that have more value",[133],{"id":60,"by":61,"text":62},[135,139],{"value":136,"source":57,"evidence":137},"Why these three variables were chosen",[138],{"id":95,"by":72,"text":96},{"value":140,"source":57,"evidence":141},"What the visualization is trying to communicate",[142],{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},[144,151],{"value":145,"source":57,"evidence":146},"dc.js crossfilter charts",[147],{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"8161497","tmarthal","If anyone is interested in a similar basic crossfilters written in d3, you can check out dc.js - https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fdc-js\u002Fdc.js\u002Fwiki (edit: i have no relation to the project, but…",{"value":152,"source":57,"evidence":153},"Crossfilter and D3 used directly",[154],{"id":155,"by":61,"text":156},"8161923","You could also simply work with Crossfilter [0] and D3 [1] directly. 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