{"id":553,"date":"2021-08-29T23:03:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T03:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/?p=553"},"modified":"2021-08-30T16:33:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T20:33:41","slug":"nathan-clune-data-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/clunenathan\/nathan-clune-data-sketch\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Clune Data Sketch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Being the privileged cis white male college student I am, it’s not common that I find myself in the minority. This was quite apparent during the class exercise from last week. I was within the circle on every single axis except for one; religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve always found it interesting how people have so much faith in something so controversial. I won’t get too deep into how I feel about faith, but one thing is objectively and provably true. When it comes to religion, no matter what you believe, most people would say that you’re wrong. It’s easy for people to forget that since many live in families or communities which share the same beliefs, but when you look at data gathered from across the world it becomes impossible to ignore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the visual below, the green bar represents the percentage of the world which follows Christianity, the most widespread religion in the world. The yellow bar represents the percentage of the world which is agnostic, a group that admits they can’t prove or disprove the existence of any god. The red bar is everyone else, the people who firmly belief that Christianity is untrue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

31.11% of people around the world are Christian, although there are many denominations which can have incompatible beliefs. I also included agnostics in yellow, since even though they don’t follow Christianity they technically wouldn’t argue against it. This is the absolute most generous visualization for anyone on earth, yet the bar is still approximately 60% red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s pretty basic at the moment, it gets the point across but there isn’t a whole lot going on. The idea I’m leaning towards is to show a screen with many of these bars side by side, each representing a different belief system. The way I have it set up currently, I only have to replace a single number to create the correct display for any other religion, so it wouldn’t be too difficult to add more of these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOTE: My point applies to any religious belief system, it’s not about Christianity specifically. I picked it simply because it’s the most popular, so I can guarantee that the results for anything else would be even more compelling. Those results will be added and shown alongside this one in the final version, creating extra meters with more red and less green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Revision Question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used the colors to try to get across the idea that the meter is lower than one would want it to be. Is it working?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being the privileged cis white male college student I am, it’s not common that I find myself in the minority. This was quite apparent during the class exercise from last week. I was within the circle on every single axis except for one; religion. I’ve always found it interesting how people have so much faith… <\/p>\n

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