Re:Least Religious Countries 2021
by axaxs on Sunday July 11, 2021 @11:20AM
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I find this really interesting...but can we talk about that opening map? It's something I'm seeing a lot of more recently and wondering if I'm broken or the people making them are. I don't think of myself as colorblind, but I only see 'red and purple' on the map. Why did they use tiny variations of those two colors to cover 10 different categories? Or can some people clearly differentiate the shades easily?
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One of my most standard criticisms. It's like people don't spend any time at all researching dataviz color scales.
A quick Google search will bring you to Viridis. Use that or one of the many similar versions in other hues.
Also: the title of the chart is "Least Religious Countries", but the chart is colored so that the top of the scale is "100% Importance of Religion in Daily Life," i.e. the most religious.