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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · 3d

📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W40 | EuroLeague Basketball
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Bar chart comparing EuroLeague basketball success by country. Greece leads with 27 Final Four appearances and 10 titles, followed by Spain (12 appearances, 6 titles) and Turkey (12 appearances, 4 titles). Seven other countries have 1-4 Final Four appearances each. Greece's 37% title conversion rate is noted.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · 7d

📊 SWD Challenge - OCT 2025: Avoiding the Spaghetti Graph
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Directional arrows replace tangled lines. Health surged, Education slipped.
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Arrow chart showing changes in non-profit funder support from 2020 to 2025. Health increased by 8% to 75%, while Arts & Culture grew by 23% to 43%. Education declined by 13% to 60%, Human Services fell by 5% to 55%, and Other dropped by 23% to 30%. A dashed vertical line marks the 2025 median at 55%.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · 9d

📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W39 | Crane Observations at Lake Hornborgasjön, Sweden (1994–2024)
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Two-panel chart showing Lake Hornborgasjön crane observations from 1994 to 2024. The top panel displays seasonal patterns with spring migration (blue, peaking around 10,000 cranes in April) significantly higher than fall migration (orange, peaking around 9,000 in October). The bottom panel shows cumulative annual observations, colored from purple (1990s) to orange (2020s), demonstrating population growth from approximately 77,000 cranes in 1994 to over 427,000 in 2024, a more than threefold increase over 30 years.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you for catching the legend error - now fixed! You're absolutely right about share vs absolute spending inequality. The chart focuses on budget allocation patterns across income groups.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · 14d

📊 #MakeoverMonday – 2025 W39 | Family spending in the UK
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Two-panel chart showing UK household spending inequality by income in 2024. The left panel displays spending gaps between the poorest and wealthiest households across 11 categories, with housing showing the most significant gap at 19.6 percentage points. The right panel shows distribution patterns across all five income quintiles using ridge plots. Housing costs disproportionately burden poor households, while transport spending favors wealthy households.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · 17d

📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W38 | FIDE Chess Player Ratings
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Multi-panel visualization showing chess player activity and achievements from FIDE data (August-September 2025). The top panel displays four histograms of game activity levels, showing that most players are casual (1-3 games) while fewer are highly active (16+ games). Bottom left shows top 20 rating improvements, led by Plzak, David, with +362 points, with a median of 255.5. Bottom right shows countries with the most titled players, led by Germany (1,004), Spain (702), and Russia (469), with a median of 391 players.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · 22d

Unfortunately, the article does not specify which Disney films are considered childish. The data in the chart shared, and the corresponding YouGov article, only refers to "Disney Films" as a general category. You can find the full article here: yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

Which ‘kidult’ hobbies and practices do Britons think are really for children? | YouGov

Most Britons see cartoons and Disney as being for children, but tend to see Doctor Who and theme parks as being as much for adults as kids

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · 22d

📊 #MakeoverMonday – 2025 W38 | Which ‘kidult’ hobbies do Britons think are for children?
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Diverging bar chart showing generational differences in viewing activities as childish. Comic Books have the largest gap at +28 percentage points, with older adults more likely to see it as childish. Most activities follow this pattern, but Star Wars (-3 pts) and Disney Films (-6 pts) diverge in the opposite direction, with younger people more likely to view them as childish than older adults.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · 24d

📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W37 | Allrecipes
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Heat map showing recipe ratings by complexity, with cooking time on y-axis (≤30 min to 4+ hours) and ingredient count on x-axis (1-5 to 20+ ingredients). Color scale from dark blue (4.45 rating) to light green (4.63 rating) reveals higher ratings for recipes with more ingredients and longer cooking times. Each cell shows the average rating and recipe count from 14,426 AllRecipes.com recipes.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · 29d

Two-panel chart showing AI's job market impact from 2024 to 2030. The top panel displays a slope chart with IT jobs growing from 18.3M to 18.8M (green line) and Transportation declining from 18.8M to 18.3M (red line), with other industries in gray background lines. Bottom panel shows waterfall chart demonstrating cumulative job changes by sector, starting with Transportation's -444K loss, followed by smaller losses in Education (-93K) and Manufacturing (-12K), then gains in Finance (+39K), Retail (+221K), Entertainment (+387K), Healthcare (+403K), and IT (+512K), resulting in net positive job creation. The chart indicates that the data is synthetic, modeling AI adoption scenarios.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · Sep 8

📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W36 | Henley Passport Index Data
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Two-panel chart showing global passport power inequality in 2024. Top panel: horizontal bar chart displaying regional differences from global median visa-free access, with Europe leading at +91 destinations above the median, followed by the Caribbean (+53) and the Americas (+44), while Africa (-36), Asia (-31), and the Middle East (-27) fall below the median. Bottom panel: stacked horizontal bar chart showing regional composition by performance tiers, revealing Europe has 29 Global Elite countries and 7 Strong Performers. In comparison, Africa is dominated by 43 Emerging Markets countries and 8 Restricted Access countries. Charts demonstrate Europe's passport dominance, alongside significant disadvantages in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · Sep 3

📊 #SWDchallenge – SEP 2025 | dashboards that deliver
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Transformed a cluttered traffic dashboard from 8 controls + 5 tabs into a focused single-page solution for transport planners.
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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · Sep 2

📊 #MakeoverMonday – 2025 W36 | Drug Harms in the UK
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Horizontal diverging bar chart ranking UK drug harms. Alcohol leads with the highest total harm (72 points), showing massive social harm (46.1) but moderate user harm (25.8). Heroin and crack cocaine follow, with higher user harm but lower social impact. Chart reveals disconnect between legal status and evidence-based harm - legal drugs, alcohol, and tobacco rank high, while many illegal drugs like LSD and mushrooms show minimal harm scores. Based on a 2010 Lancet study using multicriteria analysis of 16 harm factors.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · Sep 1

📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W35 | Australian Frogs
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Beeswarm plot showing seasonal patterns of frog calling in Australia. Each colored dot represents the recording frequency of a single species, grouped by season (from Summer to Spring) on the y-axis and on a log-scale on the x-axis. White circles mark seasonal medians. Spring shows the highest activity with 81 species and 60,405 recordings, while Winter shows the lowest with 78 species and 32,002 recordings. Colors distinguish five major frog subfamilies (Hylid, Microhylidae, Myobatrachid, Toad, and Unknown), revealing diverse seasonal preferences within these taxonomic groups.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · Aug 26

📊 #MakeoverMonday – 2025 W35 | Meat Production by Livestock Type
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Two-panel chart analyzing global meat production. The top panel displays regional trends from 1961 to 2023, featuring line graphs for six regions (Asia, North America, Europe, South America, Africa, and Oceania). This reveals Asia's dramatic growth in pig and poultry production, reaching over 60 million tonnes, while the other regions remain relatively flat. The bottom panel displays 2010-2023 statistical confidence intervals using dot plots with error bars across four meat types (Poultry, Pig, Beef & Buffalo, and Sheep & Goat), confirming Asia's dominance in most categories, with North America leading in beef production. Color coding is consistent throughout: brown for beef, bright pink for pig, orange for poultry, and green for sheep.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · Aug 25

📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W34 | Billboard Hot 100 Number Ones
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Two-panel chart illustrating the evolution of Latin music on the Billboard charts from 1995 to 2022. The top timeline shows major hits, including "Despacito" (16 weeks) and "Macarena" (14 weeks), as peaks. Bottom-faceted bar charts display the top songs across five cultural waves: Dance Revolution (Macarena), Latin Pop Wave (Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez), Crossover Success (Santana), Streaming Era (Despacito), and Urban Takeover (Cardi B). Data demonstrates Latin music's progression from novelty hits to mainstream dominance.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · Aug 19

📊 #MakeoverMonday – 2025 W34 | UK Unemployment Rate
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Two-panel chart showing UK unemployment volatility from 1975-2025. Top panel: Bar chart of year-over-year unemployment changes by decade, with orange bars showing rising unemployment and blue bars showing falling unemployment. The largest spikes occur during the 1980s Thatcher Era and the 2008 financial crisis. Bottom panel: Dumbbell chart showing unemployment ranges by decade, with the 1980s having the highest volatility (5.7% to 11.9% range) and the 1970s the most stable (3.4% to 5.7% range).

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · Aug 18

📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W33 | Scottish Munros
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Population pyramid showing height distribution of Scottish Munros vs Munro Tops in 2021. Green bars (right) represent 282 Munros, brown bars (left) represent 226 Munro Tops. The chart reveals that Munros dominate higher elevations above 1100m, while Munro Tops are more prevalent in lower ranges. The largest groups are found at elevations of 950-1000m (78 Munros, 73 Munro Tops) and 900-950m (68 Munros, 71 Munro Tops), indicating a relatively even distribution at lower elevations.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · Aug 12

📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W32 | Extreme Weather Attribution Studies
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A faceted line chart illustrating the regional evolution of extreme weather attribution science from 2010 to 2024 across eight regions. Each panel displays two metrics: study volume (green solid/dashed lines) normalized within each region, and rapid attribution adoption rates (orange dashed lines). Europe leads with 163 studies, followed by Eastern/South-Eastern Asia (161) and North America (135). The chart reveals distinct regional patterns: some regions, such as North America, exhibit early and rapid adoption peaks around 2018-2020, while others, like Eastern Asia, display steady volume growth with late-emerging rapid adoption. Background shading indicates three development phases: Emergence (2010-2013), Growth (2014-2018), and Maturation (2019-2024). Thin lines represent annual data, while thick lines show 3-year moving averages that exclude partial years.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · Aug 11

📊 #MakeoverMonday – 2025 W33 | Access to Electricity
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$Two-panel chart showing global convergence in electricity access from 2000 to 2023. Top panel: The scatter plot reveals that countries with the lowest access (\<25%) achieved the greatest improvements (50-70+ percentage points), while countries starting near universal access showed minimal change. Bottom panel: The line chart shows the progress of five cohorts over time, with very low starters (red line) rising from ~15% to 50% access, demonstrating a catch-up effect. Data shows evidence of global convergence as access gaps narrow.$

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · Aug 5

📊 #MakeoverMonday – 2025 W32 | Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)
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Two-panel chart showing corruption perceptions by income level. Left panel: beeswarm plot reveals higher-income countries (orange dots) cluster at better corruption scores (60-90), while lower-income countries (blue dots) spread across worse scores (10-60). Right panel: The dumbbell chart shows the largest changes from 2012 to 2024, with Seychelles leading at a +20-point improvement and Estonia at a +12-point improvement, demonstrating that countries across all income levels can achieve dramatic anti-corruption progress.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · Aug 5

📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W31 | Income Inequality Before and After Taxes
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Two-panel chart showing income inequality patterns. The left panel displays density curves of post-tax inequality by world region, with Latin America (highlighted in dark purple) exhibiting the highest levels of inequality. Right panel shows a horizontal bar chart of 15 countries with minimal redistribution effects, ordered from highest to lowest. The Dominican Republic (0.52 pre-tax Gini, 0.008 redistribution) and Brazil (0.59 pre-tax Gini, 0.079 redistribution) are highlighted in dark colors, demonstrating that Latin American countries have high market inequality but minimal government redistribution, compared to countries like Norway (0.39 pre-tax Gini, 0.152 redistribution.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · Jul 29

📊 #MakeoverMonday – 2025 W31 | Wages Across Europe
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Dual-panel chart showing European minimum wage changes 2020-2025. Left panel: dumbbell chart displaying growth percentages from 23% (Luxembourg) to 87% (Poland), with gray circles marking 2020 starting wages and colored dots showing 2025 endpoints. Right panel: horizontal bar chart showing current deviation from €1,686 EU average, with blue bars for countries above average (Luxembourg highest at +€952) and red bars for countries below average (Czechia lowest at -€860). Eastern European countries exhibit the highest growth rates but remain below the EU average.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · Jul 28

I have a base theme that I tweak if needed.

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · Jul 28

📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W3- | What have we been watching on Netflix?
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$Netflix Content Viewing Velocity Analysis showing scatter plots of movies and shows with views per day (y-axis, log scale) versus days since release (x-axis, 0-365 days). Movies show a steeper velocity decline than shows over time. Key performance metrics indicate that movies have a higher mean velocity (154K vs. 86K views/day) but fewer total titles (346 vs. 904). Four velocity categories are color-coded, ranging from low (\<18K views/day) in dark red to very high (200K+ views/day) in gold, with Netflix trend lines in red indicating overall decay patterns.$

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