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JPAnalyst t1_j8s7dbi wrote

I get that you needed a quick rebuttal to the other post this morning, but you could have put a sliver of TLC into this to make it more appealing and help us easily interpret the takeaway.

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Social_Philosophy OP t1_j8s87np wrote

What would you like changed? The only thing I couldn't really decide on was adding a trend-line or not.

I tried labeling each data-point with the corresponding State, but it looked extremely cluttered and hurt the readability.

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JPAnalyst t1_j8s8mjj wrote

The dots should be bigger. Much bigger. If you do nothing else do that. The fonts should be bigger.

Also, you can definitely label the states, if you want to. Use two letter abbreviations. And where it gets cluttered, manually move them around using the line that will still point to the dot for ease in associating them with the right dot.

If you don’t want to label all of them, label a few outliers you know the audience would key in on.

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Social_Philosophy OP t1_j8s9m5b wrote

Yeah, I would definetly increase the size of the points and all text further, if I was going to post again. It seems pretty good when clicked fullscreen, but everything is a little small at the default size reddit embeds it at.

Good call on abbreviations and outliers.

For anyone who wants to know, the highest gun ownership rate is Montana at 65.7%, the highest gun homicide rate is Louisiana, at 9.29 per 100K, and the lowest for both is Hawaii.

I actually realized I screwed up the chart, the highest gun homicide rate is DC at 19.72, I completely cut it off the top of the chart.

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crimeo t1_j8uwoor wrote

DC is not a state. If you included it, then your title is wrong.

"...vs a percentage of households owning a firearm in each US state"

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Social_Philosophy OP t1_j8uy6z3 wrote

Fortuitous that I failed to include then, ain't it?

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crimeo t1_j8uza65 wrote

Ah I thought you meant you included it but just GRAPHICALLY cut it off.

(Not the same thing as not including it at all, since you have an r^2 value listed as well which would still be influenced by something not visible)

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dml997 t1_j8uc9av wrote

A trend line and R^2 would be helpful.

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