This is a surprisingly bad treemap, which is surprising given how easy it is to build a good one these days.

dang 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

empiricus 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Looks average to me. Maybe I don't know how the good ones look? Can you give some examples?

	▲	jazzpush2 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Treemaps are used to show hierarchical data. But here he doesn't even bother to show more than one-level of hierarchy. If I want to find, e.g. Police, it's near impossible, since I have to scan with my eyes (when, again, it's trivial to add another rectangle to show Law Enforcement or other). In addition, little work is done to separate the classes. He has probation officers in the same node as teachers, completely separate from law enforcement. Here's some much better examples: - https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/04/abortion-nu... - https://flowingdata.com/2015/04/02/how-we-spend-our-money-a-...