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Sheamus_1852 t1_j2waowg wrote

Why exclude YT and FB if you’re just going to include Reddit, Twitter, and Wikipedia?

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dreamsnicer t1_j2wbl31 wrote

It clearly says at the top, they saturate a lot of the top 3 so it would just be those everywhere. If you look now there is a lot of variety, so because twitter isn’t as dominant it is more interesting that it is at the top for some countries than if youtube was the top for a country while also being the top for most other countries.

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Sheamus_1852 t1_j2wddl7 wrote

Half the map is Wikipedia and Twitter. Would of been a more insightful view to remove those as well.

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hidden_secret t1_j2x2mwd wrote

Not really, as someone in Europe who rarely goes to twitter, it's interesting to me to see that south hemisphere countries are all about it, I wouldn't have guessed it was still that popular in some regions of the world.

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danielv123 t1_j2ws3gn wrote

I am confused about madagascar. Orange, as in the french telecom company?

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jonovan t1_j3pg857 wrote

OK, please do that and post your results. Thanks in advance! :)

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Vindaloovians t1_j2ws7lv wrote

You should exclude Baidu then imo - it's effectively just Chinese Google.

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dreamsnicer t1_j2wuup3 wrote

Agreed, it says other search engines so probably a mistake.

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mion81 t1_j2wvo0a wrote

I love visualisations that are basically “all data excluding the data we didn’t like for some reason that is too hard to explain”.

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hidden_secret t1_j2x2dtt wrote

Because if you included YT (or FB), the WHOLE map would only be that.

Whereas with Reddit, Twitter and Wikipedia, clearly there are some regional differences.

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_MicroWave_ t1_j2wi7ce wrote

That's the whole point of this map

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Sheamus_1852 t1_j2wq7jw wrote

The point of the map is to show most viewed sites. Then they threw in extra exclusions. Twitter and Wikipedia cover half of the map. I love the map and the data just questioning the process. Would be best to do multiple maps showing the paring down of heavy volume. What does it look like without filters except search engines, then this map, then a map with Twitter and Wikipedia pared out. I’d assume Amazon would be the dominant one after Twitter and Wikipedia. A progression to see what is most used outside of the biggest site would be interesting.

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