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KerPop42 t1_iue5lku wrote

I think you could have made this data more beautiful. A log vertical scale would have helped us see all the data, and you could have added other, well-known benchmarks to help communicate the power of the log scale

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Deto t1_iuehsbg wrote

Depends what you are trying to convey. If the message is "look how ridiculously more powerful these later nukes were compared to the first ones" then a linear scale is much more appropriate.

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quetric t1_iueo4rl wrote

This is pretty far from beautiful. The graph is confusing because looking at the vertical axis tells you the comparison is by yield, but having the mushroom clouds instead of bars suggests the comparison is by height of the cloud. I suspect the relationship between the two metrics is not linear so they're not interchangeable.

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