• nifty@lemmy.world
    11·
    4 months ago

    I like how the position axis starts at 0, maybe that’s for a year they don’t qualify

  • Ejh3k@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    4 months ago

    If the article is about how just a few countries are dominating the podiums, I think this is an incredibly effective graph.

  • the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world
    6·
    4 months ago

    This reminds me of that chart showing gun deaths over a few years that showed the line going down the more deaths there were. That made sense graphically, they colored it in to look like blood dripping down, but this is just dumb.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    42·
    4 months ago

    The Y axis is the absolute number of medals and the labels for each data point are relative rankings. If one country got all the medals except one and Ireland got that one remaining medal, there would be a data point at Y=1 with the label “2nd”.