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Arimotomeku t1_j5y09o6 wrote

No front but this is ugly data.

Like first of all pls go with the highest one on top instead of these irrelevant ones that are way less important. People look at the top first and therefore should there be the most important things/biggest data points.

Second, this is way to much data, you don't need to list every single thing, at some point it's fine to put everything to "others" if it adds nothing to the data provided. Like at minimum after 0.01 no one cares about every single language anymore, maybe even earlier.

Would look way smoother if it wouldn't be such a long drawn out list.

Hope you perceive this as positive criticism to help you get your data ordered better and not as random hate.

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Charmanderflamethrow OP t1_j5y0o7e wrote

Replying to Arimotomeku (#1,502,794)

thanks , yes I did think about the points you told before I posted,

The main reason I did that way is to showcase the diversity of India. Hence I put all those so called "insignificant" ones in the chart. Languages are dying a slow death, this is my way of shedding light on them. I dont think they are insignificant . I want every language to be represented.

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Arimotomeku t1_j5y3u2i wrote

Replying to Charmanderflamethrow (#1,502,834)

Ahh okay, then I understand why you did it. But still maybe it would be better to say that there are many more languages or put an number to the "others" line because I don't think many people will read all the names anyway. Maybe a headline which states the diversity of the Indian people directly on the dataset would be helpful to add to the point you are trying to make. Thing I am trying to say is that there are better ways of getting your point across then having a mile long dataset which many people just glance over. Compact info with focus on the point you want to get across is way more attention receiving.

But like the first comment these are just my two cents to it.

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eric5014 t1_j5y4e47 wrote

TIL there is a Bhojpuri language with 50M speakers.

A large number of them look insignificant at 0.001-0.01%, but that's still like 10-100k people. The Australian census lists 500 languages including over 200 Aboriginal languages, some of them with number of speakers in one or two digits.

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Tintenklex t1_j5y81yu wrote

Replying to Charmanderflamethrow (#1,502,834)

If you want to present the data in a beautiful way, this isn’t the way. Maybe you can sort them by something else? A network diagram on „familiarities between Indian languages spoken by at least [whatever the numerical value of 0,1% of Indians is]“ and showcase them and all their intricacies that way. But this is just a list that is made very long by the way it’s presented.

I applaud your enthusiasm for the diversity of language, though! Great to see!

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boganvegan t1_j5y8ac9 wrote

What about English? Even back in 1991 I think there were children of parents with different mother tongues, living in major cities who learned English before other languages and spoke English at home.

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Deceptikhan42 t1_j5yefaf wrote

You want every language to be represented? Even though most of them are just quasi dialects of another language.

And this data is 30 years old

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Misbrukt t1_j5yfnpx wrote

If I can’t do anal, I will go to war

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It_hurtsss t1_j5yqy5v wrote

Ay Bengali here. Wonder if Bengali is still the second.

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Pexd t1_j5yx7mg wrote

I thought Tamil was rare. I was wrong

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stupidbutgenius t1_j5z07le wrote

Replying to realLRM (#1,507,244)

I'm aware, but I know a couple of Indians who grew up speaking English at home and I thought it was more common - but it is probably just that the people who migrate from India to English speaking countries are far more likely to have been English native than the general population.

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waghkunal93 t1_j5z1rwd wrote

Data is Beautiful, but the way this is distributed or showcased is blatant terrible. Like put some efforts into visualization please!!

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empstat t1_j5zdgn2 wrote

Kudos to OP for trying something different. Major languages are more well-known.

An added map idea would be to show which languages are spoken mostly in which states (if the data is available).

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Chris-1235 t1_j5zxehp wrote

The perfect example of a long tail, visualized in a way that makes it look like a long thread instead /s

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Tiny_Jellyfish4759 t1_j5zybdy wrote

How has no one pointed out that it just says "Axis Title" for the title of the x-axis...

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trikristmas t1_j5zzvth wrote

Hey, Indian dude! How do you communicate with your mum? Just anal.

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sisiredd t1_j6002jd wrote

Replying to Arimotomeku (#1,502,794)

Am I the only one who finds the presentation quite interesting? It is surprising, and the scrolling down forces you to realise how many languages there are in India that the average Westerner has never heard of. I wouldn't call it beautiful, but it's creative and thought-provoking. Way better than just another ugly pie chart.

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justindoherty405 t1_j606mau wrote

I’d like to see one with a map! Not familiar with the regions of India ( US )

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cowboy_dude_6 t1_j60c9n5 wrote

Format is a default excel bar chart. You didn’t even bother to change the font or color. Both axes are literally titled “axis title”. The data is from 1991. The most interesting and relevant information is at the bottom, buried under a sea of obscure languages. Data is fucking ugly.

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juan-de-fuca t1_j61izu0 wrote

War! What’s it good for?! 0.003%. Oh? Ok. Thanks.

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zookeeper25 t1_j62qi7c wrote

Replying to stupidbutgenius (#1,507,301)

People from different mother tongues marrying each other and their children speaking English at home is a fairly unique phenomenon from the last 10 years. 30 years ago those children were probably speaking Hindi at home.

Secondly, there is absolutely no correlation between those speaking English at home and those migrating to English-speaking countries. Almost everyone who has received a decent level of education has studied English in school. It’s not their mother tongue but it’s their second or third tongue - and that’s good enough to immigrate. Almost All university level education is in English. So the more educated people that you have encountered in your country have all studied a lot of their subjects in English

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