Starting from the distribution chart of single men and women in the United States-an overview of visual narration

2007/2/28 zhengyun_ustc starting from the distribution chart of single men and women in the United States -- an overview of visual narration

 

It is said that the figure above was logged out by National Geographic Magazine, which was obtained by US Census Bureau. The red dot in the figure indicates more single women, and the blue dot indicates more single men. The larger the dot indicates the larger the number. The red dot in the southwest corner of Pennsylvania is pittw.gh. This figure shows that, based on the Mississippi River, most of the single women in North America are concentrated in the east, especially in NYC, while single men in California have a large surplus, and Microsoft's Seattle.

Zheng Yue:Look at the outstanding contributions of the U.S. population survey. Visualized and clear data display seems to be special to foreigners. Foreigners are especially good at graphical thinking, while Chinese are good at using1234Break the language to write. This may be related to the Chinese education system textbook "three character classics" "university", "moderate", and "The Analects of Confucius", which have been used for thousands of years. For example,"Human nature at the beginning"This is a closed sentence, with no arguments, no statistical data to prove the goodness of nature.

Later, we finally mastered the pie chart, bar chart,XYAxis and other common functions. Unfortunately, the pie chart and column chart have great defects in the performance latitude, but it is rare for people to break through the mindset, or the lack of motivation to try to make the data easier to understand and more intuitive.

Of course, if I make this picture, I guess I will only use thirty pie charts to show the ratio of leftover male women in each province, or pull oneXYThe horizontal axis isSingleThe vertical coordinate of the number is the color of the column used by the province to indicate whether there are men or women left. This is the gap. I thought that when I was in high school, I was the best at solving mathematical problems with graphics, and almost instantly understood what kind of graphics should be used to solve regular mathematical problems. But why do we lose our imagination now? MaybeITThe technology must force itself to simulate the linear thinking of the computer.

Lily net may wish to do so.

Let's add a classic example:

This is a sexual relationship drawn by American social research institutions 18 months after they tracked all sexual relations in a high school. Blue points represent male students, and pink points represent female students.