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Minimum Wage Needed to Meet Cost of Living in US States (OC) (midwest.social)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz
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By popular demand, one last map to examine the absurdity of the American economy.

If you saw my map from yesterday that was up most of the day, please see the corrected version below. I done goofed hard on copying a column of state names. The original post has been corrected, but I will also post my previous two maps on this post for easy comparison.

Edit: the red map, for anyone unaware, is based on current individual state minimum wages and not the current federal minimum wage

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Too many data classes. Too many colors. I can't determine exactly what class states are without a color picker.

Your update legend is more confusing than the original

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    I suppose that is a fair criticism of the multi faceted map with red and green, but the other two are simple light-dark scale and I dont see how your criticism makes sense. You can literally read those two perfectly clearly in grayscale if you wanted to. So I dont see the criticism there, sounds more like a personal issue

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm a GIS professional for 11 years and work with accessibility so no it's not a personal issue. Any more than 5 color classes are too much. Your inability to accept criticism is a personal issue

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I accepted your criticism as far as it was reasonable to me. Im not a professional, nor do I think my chart needs to meet your conception of a professional standard. As I said it is clearly legible to myself and many other people. The middle map yeah its not accessible to someone with colorblindness issues, I get that. I agreed with you. The other two are accessible and legible perfectly fine in grayscale for anyone with vision issues.

    The idea of it not having more than 5 classes is something I even personally already did when it was feasible on the orange map, without knowing anything of what is apparently a standard. I intentionally did not break down the scales any further just for that clarity. That was not an option for the red map, as finer bands made far more sense in that case considering the width of the scale that was caused by massive fluctuations in state minimum wages

    I dont see how this an issue with me as opposed to you being a nitpick since you do this as a day job. Im doing it for fun and for my own visualization. And it appears most people dont seem to have any problem understanding them. Maybe you oughtta lighten up a bit

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