Crossposting because there's a LOT of salty comments about the lack of UK and if it was or wasnt trolling to mention it in the title of the original post (Which was not mine... some of the salty comments were mine but not the original post).
There's two very reasonable explanations for the inclusion or exclusion of the UK. Either it's 2016 data so the UK should be included, or it was compiled in 2021 so the UK might not have been in the published data.
But apparently the source data was per country and OP compiled it and chose to exclude the UK themselves, despite it being as-of 2016.
And also OP made some snarky remark about "Don't Downvote me just because I chose to remove the UK from a representation of the EU when the UK was still in the EU." And it's that's weird comment that people were salty about.
Crossposting because there's a LOT of salty comments about the lack of UK and if it was or wasnt trolling to mention it in the title of the original post (Which was not mine... some of the salty comments were mine but not the original post).
The comments aren't "salty", they're pointing out that this is 2016 data, and the UK was part of the EU in 2016.
(Also, the original post was to /r/dataisbeautiful, and this is really quite an ugly way to represent the data.)
There's two very reasonable explanations for the inclusion or exclusion of the UK. Either it's 2016 data so the UK should be included, or it was compiled in 2021 so the UK might not have been in the published data.
But apparently the source data was per country and OP compiled it and chose to exclude the UK themselves, despite it being as-of 2016.
And also OP made some snarky remark about "Don't Downvote me just because I chose to remove the UK from a representation of the EU when the UK was still in the EU." And it's that's weird comment that people were salty about.
In 2016, the UK was in the EU. The data is from 2016. The data contains the UK. Therefore this map of 2016 EU data should include the UK.
That's not being "salty", it's a legitimate complaint about incorrect representation of data.
Did you not read what I wrote?
"And also OP made some snarky remark ... And it's that weird comment that people were salty about."
I'm honest not surprised. Bring on the wine and cheap whisky.