Recent comments in /f/dataisbeautiful

Daaaaaaaavidmit8a t1_jdz9r1d wrote

I don't know if you looked at rail only or at all methods of public transport, but here's what I found about rail only.

Germany has 461 km of rail per one million inhabitants. Switzerland has 609 km of rail per one million inhabitants.

Germany has 109 meters of rail per square kilometre. Switzerland has 128 meters of rail per square kilometre.

So the Railway network of Switzerland is indeed denser than germanys.

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Mooks79 t1_jdz4tgl wrote

This doesn’t really say a lot unless it factors in frequency somehow, maybe the line alpha is number of journeys per day or something. Not of people, I mean if availability. In the U.K. I can see lines in areas that the reality is there’s one a day, which is almost useless, yet this puts the route on a par with others that may have 2 an hour.

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DeliaElijahy OP t1_jdz4l05 wrote

I created this to get some data for a fun project I'm working on. The reason the left and right sides have a bit more yellow than top and bottom is because of the aspect ratio; the boundary is longer on the X axis than the Y axis.

This was done in Python using Pygame. It wasn't actually a lot of code; only 55 lines total (without empty lines).

I didn't include the numerical data for simplicity and presentation sake.

Edit: You can also just about see a faint outline (like a diagonal chequerboard pattern) of crossing lines... pretty interesting, honestly.

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wrp1 t1_jdz3trk wrote

These gains are very significant, and were totally unexpected. The share of people making less than $10 an hour, adjusted for inflation, is far smaller than a few years ago.

The data is real, whatever the hive mind of Reddit in these comments thinks.

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nn4260029 t1_jdz3eld wrote

I work in tech in The Netherlands. Hiring is usually a first interview with the manager to assess your personality and team fit, and then an interview with some people in the team who have your future role to assess job skills.

Is anyone in your team really better of because you asked the new hire to market a fridge to Inuit or to sort an array of JSON objects without using a parser?

To me it sounds a bit like a ritual hazing dance, sort of a “job hunting performance art”.

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