r/dataisugly 1d ago

44.9 > 44.9 > 44.9

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u/Impossible_Dog_7262 1d ago

How do you even fuck that up...

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u/BrazilBazil 1d ago

Copy paste the box to keep the formatting but forget to change the text. If I had a dollar for every time I did that…

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u/tuturuatu 1d ago

I'd have like 1 dollar, but this is surely correct. Placeholders too, lol

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u/Impossible_Dog_7262 1d ago

I feel like the problem there is that you're manually adding data boxes to a graph...

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u/BrazilBazil 1d ago

It’s much easier to just manually type 3 boxes worth of data during typesetting than doing it programmatically. 20 boxes I’d agree but 3?

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u/Impossible_Dog_7262 1d ago

This is the kind of thing where you'd think someone would have made a tool. Where you click the part of the graph you want and it displays the value you clicked.

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u/BrazilBazil 1d ago

Maybe it didn’t meet the criteria?
https://xkcd.com/1205/

Or maybe they made the graph in one software and decided to add the boxes later when it was already a PNG or SVG? Who knows

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u/cosmos_crown 1d ago

The longer you look the worse it gets

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u/Jeecistion 1d ago

what.

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u/sandnose 1d ago

Hilarious, where is this from?

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u/R_eevy 1d ago

A media house. This is a published graph.

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u/-j4ckK- 22h ago

The more things change, the more they stay the same, I guess?

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u/Disastrous_Fee_8712 1d ago

Some people are more equal than others.

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u/rtakehara 20h ago

You can see the exact moment nothing changed

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u/bowsmountainer 1d ago

This is awful in so many ways

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u/zcpibm3 3h ago

It’s supposed to be 54.9%??