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King-Of-Rats t1_j9tgt1y wrote

Eh, that seems right to me.

If you’ve only lived in large cities your entire life then… yeah, every house you see is going to be like $400,000.

A lot of America just doesn’t live in those cities and never has. If you are living in Idaho or Montana there are a lot of places where you can still get a house pretty comfortably with some degree of dual income (or just one decent job).

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Denk-doch-mal-meta OP t1_j9tf1m6 wrote

A pie chat is a very obvious choice to give a fast view on the results of a dichotome question. Also notice the nice coloring.

Edit because many downvoted: Why all the hate for a poor pie chart? It's a standard chart to show what answers of 100 are reaching a bigger or smaller part. For example very common if you want to show the importance of different industries as parts of s countries GDP.

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Denk-doch-mal-meta OP t1_j9tebb5 wrote

The data itself is beautiful.

Edit: Please read the rules.

>Does appearance matter?

>Yes! But pretty pictures are not the aim of this subreddit. Posts should strive to present information as effectively as possible. Part of that process is visual design. Default output from Excel, R, mapping programs, etc. can be overly cluttered and hard to understand. Try looking at font sizes, erroneous grid lines, alignment, and aliasing. A lack of good design ultimately limits the ability of a visualization to convey information.

>However, don't downvote because you think a post is ugly. If you have some design experience, please add some constructive criticism, so people know how to improve.

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420everytime t1_j9tccj2 wrote

Doesn’t this say 50% of white millennial 30 year olds own homes?

In the very white town in Georgia that I grew up in, probably more than 50% of 30 year olds own homes.

Granted, you can get a nice home in that town for under $150k, but generally speaking homes are much cheaper in small town white America than in more diverse cities.

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