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JPAnalyst t1_j8s8mjj wrote

Reply to comment by Social_Philosophy in [OC] Gun Homicide Rate vs. Gun Ownership Rate in the United States by Social_Philosophy

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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